Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about God

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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 is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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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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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

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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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

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Albert Einstein

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

Heraclitus

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

Sir Julian Huxley