Motivational Quotes

God

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about God

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

Butterworth, Eric

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Minor White

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

10.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

11.

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

Heraclitus

12.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Simpson, A. B.

19.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

20.

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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

22.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

23.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Albert Einstein

27.

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

Herbert, George

28.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

29.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

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

Brenda Ueland

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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Albert Einstein

40.

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Aughey, John H.

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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

44.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

William Blake

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish