Motivational Quotes

God

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

- Sheen, Martin

Best Quotes about God

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

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

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Daly, Mary

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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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

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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Eckhart, Meister

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Doris Egan

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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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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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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Saadi

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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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, 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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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]

Bible

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

J. G. Holland