Motivational Quotes

God

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about God

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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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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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Truett, George W.

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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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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

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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

Homer

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

Joubert, Joseph

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Plotinus

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Luther, Martin

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

Doris Egan

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus