Motivational Quotes

God

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about God

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Macdonald, George

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Walker, Alice

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Brenda Ueland

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Simpson, A. B.

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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 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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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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 there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Homer

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Heraclitus

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