Motivational Quotes

God

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

- Haweis, H. R.

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

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

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

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Doris Egan

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Saadi

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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

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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Williams, Ted

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Law, William

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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

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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]

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