Motivational Quotes

God

God hath entrusted me with myself.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about God

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 only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Bai, Mira

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mary Daly

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

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

Daly, Mary

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice