Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about God

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

Doris Egan

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

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

Saadi

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Blake

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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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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Simpson, A. B.

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Jewish Proverb

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De