Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Homer

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

Cioran, E. M.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Picabia, Francis

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

J. G. Holland

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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.