Motivational Quotes

God

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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

11.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

12.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

13.

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

Tillich, Paul

14.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

J. G. Holland

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

Seneca

18.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

19.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

Heraclitus

40.

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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Joubert, Joseph

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

45.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

46.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph 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