Motivational Quotes

God

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about God

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Layton, Irving

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

Macdonald, George

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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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

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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

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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 you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Michael J. Fox

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Seneca

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

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil