Motivational Quotes

God

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about God

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

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Albert Einstein

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Chuck Palahniuk

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Daly, Mary

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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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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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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

32.

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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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Jewish Proverb

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Saadi

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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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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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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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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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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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