Motivational Quotes

God

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about God

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

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

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Joubert, Joseph

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Tillich, Paul

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Seneca

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Doris Egan

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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