Motivational Quotes

God

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about God

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Williams, Ted

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

J. G. Holland

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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

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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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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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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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

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Luther, Martin

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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]

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mary Daly

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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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]

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

Real Live Preacher

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel