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

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Augustine, St.

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

Voltaire

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

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Doris Egan

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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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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.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Saadi

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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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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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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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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Peck, William M.

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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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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]

Bible

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Frost, Robert

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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