Motivational Quotes

God

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

- Flavius Josephus

Best Quotes about God

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

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

William Blake

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Walker, Alice

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Saadi

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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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.