Motivational Quotes

God

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

10.

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

11.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

13.

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

Doris Egan

14.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

15.

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

16.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

Albert Einstein

21.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Flavius Josephus

24.

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

25.

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.

Tozer, A. W.

26.

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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Webster, Daniel

34.

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

Stowell, Joseph

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

37.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

39.

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

Mary Daly

40.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

41.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

42.

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.

43.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

44.

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

45.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

46.

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

47.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

48.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

49.

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

50.

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

Saadi