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

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

Albert Einstein

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]

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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.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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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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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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 not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Picabia, Francis