Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bai, Mira

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Albert Einstein

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Plotinus

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

William Blake

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

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

Augustine, St.

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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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