Motivational Quotes

God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about God

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Flecker, James Elroy

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Agathon

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Mary Daly

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Anouilh, Jean

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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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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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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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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]

Bible

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Einstein, Albert