Motivational Quotes

God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Bai, Mira

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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 is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Aughey, John H.

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Albert Einstein

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

Agathon

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean