Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Seneca

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

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.

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Seneca

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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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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 glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

Luther, Martin

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Jewish Proverb

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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.

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Webster, Daniel

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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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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