Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Luther, Martin

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

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

Doris Egan

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

Eckhart, Meister

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Simpson, A. B.

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Real Live Preacher

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bai, Mira

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Minor White

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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich