Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Sir Julian Huxley

Best Quotes about God

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Eckhart, Meister

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Doris Egan

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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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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 always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Brenda Ueland

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Webster, Daniel

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Walker, Alice

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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.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

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