Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Williams, Ted

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

William Blake

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

Tillich, Paul

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Bible

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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

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Heraclitus

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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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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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Albert Einstein

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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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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Butterworth, Eric