Motivational Quotes

God

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about God

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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.

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

Truett, George W.

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

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

18.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Eckhart, Meister

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Heraclitus

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Voltaire

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

Augustine, St.

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Picabia, Francis

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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'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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Walker, Alice

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

Seneca

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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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

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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 too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman