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

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

Paul, Jean

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Plotinus

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

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Saadi

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Homer

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Mary Daly

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

Frost, Robert

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Albert Einstein

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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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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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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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 psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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