Motivational Quotes

God

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]

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Best Quotes about God

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

Macdonald, George

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

William Blake

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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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 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

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Luther, Martin

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Shakti Gawain

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Aughey, John H.