Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Anna Quindlen

11.

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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Minor White

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

21.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

22.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Luther, Martin

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

30.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Layton, Irving

33.

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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Frost, Robert

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

45.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

49.

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

Mairaux, Andre