Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Voltaire

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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.

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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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

11.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

12.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

13.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

J. G. Holland

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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 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

18.

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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mary Daly

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

Luther, Martin

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

Homer

27.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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

William Blake

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

35.

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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Flavius Josephus

43.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Simpson, A. B.

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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