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

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

Proverb

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Irv Kupcinet

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

Agathon

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

11.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

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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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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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Luther, Martin

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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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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

39.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Doris Egan

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Albert Einstein

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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