Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Voltaire

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

Albert Einstein

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

Macdonald, George

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Daly, Mary

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

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 day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Walker, Alice

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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.

27.

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

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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 indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

30.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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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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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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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

40.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cioran, E. M.

44.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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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