Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about God

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

Einstein, Albert

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Seneca

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

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

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

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

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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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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.

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

Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Mary Daly

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

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

Agathon

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland