Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about God

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

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.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Frost, Robert

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Heraclitus

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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