Motivational Quotes

God

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

- Plotinus

Best Quotes about God

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

Agathon

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

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Luther, Martin

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Williams, Ted

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Augustine, St.

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

Heraclitus

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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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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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb