Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Agathon

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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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 we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Cioran, E. M.

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Seneca

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich