Motivational Quotes

God

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

- Minor White

Best Quotes about God

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Seneca

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

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

Mary Daly

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

10.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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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

12.

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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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

15.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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 only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Daly, Mary

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

26.

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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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.

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

34.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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

Albert Einstein

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Layton, Irving

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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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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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.

43.

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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

45.

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

Doris Egan

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace