Motivational Quotes

God

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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.

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

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Picabia, Francis

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Hugh Elliott

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Bai, Mira

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Homer

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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.