Motivational Quotes

God

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

- Petronius

Best Quotes about 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

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

Truett, George W.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

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

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.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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 seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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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

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

Herbert, George

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

William Blake

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Peck, William M.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader