Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Bai, Mira

Best Quotes about God

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Herbert, George

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Albert Einstein

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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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

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

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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