Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Layton, Irving

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

Proverb

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Albert Einstein

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Bai, Mira

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Heraclitus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Saadi