Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Best Quotes about God

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

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Voltaire

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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

Proverb

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

William Blake

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Michael J. Fox

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

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

J. G. Holland

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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