Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Heraclitus

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Luther, Martin

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

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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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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

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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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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Eckhart, Meister