Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about God

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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.

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

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Peck, William M.

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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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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

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Plotinus

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

Steinem, Gloria

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Doris Egan

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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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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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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