Motivational Quotes

God

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about God

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Agathon

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Albert Einstein

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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Walker, Alice

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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 would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Doris Egan

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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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