Motivational Quotes

God

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Seneca

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

Daly, Mary

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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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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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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 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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Michael J. Fox

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Albert Einstein

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Layton, Irving

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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.