Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Heraclitus

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

Canetti, Elias

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Jewish Proverb

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Peck, William M.

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo