Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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.

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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Eckhart, Meister

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Daly, Mary

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Voltaire

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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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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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.

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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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

Herbert, George

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Picabia, Francis

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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]

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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

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

William Blake

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.