Motivational Quotes

God

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about God

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

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.

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

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Doris Egan

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Walker, Alice

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph