Motivational Quotes

God

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

- Gulbranson, Gary

Best Quotes about God

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Seneca

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

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

Shakti Gawain

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Doris Egan

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

Heraclitus

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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.

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

Irv Kupcinet

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Seneca

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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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