Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

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

Flavius Josephus

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Paul, Jean

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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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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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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Tillich, Paul

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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, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Hugh Elliott

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

J. G. Holland

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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 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.