Motivational Quotes

God

When men make gods, there is no God!

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about God

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

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.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Eckhart, Meister

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Williams, Ted

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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

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

Saadi

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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]

Bible

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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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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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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.

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

Butterworth, 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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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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

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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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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert