Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Best Quotes about God

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Agathon

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Law, William

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

William Blake

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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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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Albert Einstein

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Luther, Martin

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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

Homer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De