Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Albert Einstein

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

Mary Daly

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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Saadi

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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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.

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

Williams, Ted

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Tillich, Paul

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Walker, Alice

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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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

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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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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich