Motivational Quotes

God

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

- Joel S. Goldsmith

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Daly, Mary

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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

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.

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

Macdonald, George

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Michael J. Fox

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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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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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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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

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Einstein, Albert

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

William Blake

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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 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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Flavius Josephus

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tillich, Paul

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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.