Motivational Quotes

God

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about God

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie