Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about God

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

Aughey, John H.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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

Homer

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Herbert, George

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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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

William Blake

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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 place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Voltaire

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Cotvos

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Joubert, Joseph