Motivational Quotes

God

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

- Sara B. Cooper

Best Quotes about God

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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.

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Albert Einstein

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Seneca

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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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