Motivational Quotes

God

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about God

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Irv Kupcinet

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

19.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Brenda Ueland

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

31.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Doris Egan

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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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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Walker, Alice

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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