Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about God

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

W. Somerset Maugham

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Eckhart, Meister

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

10.

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]

Bible

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

Bai, Mira

12.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Mary Daly

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Tillich, Paul

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Michael J. Fox

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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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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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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

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doris Egan

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric