Motivational Quotes

God

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Best Quotes about God

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

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

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

Aughey, John H.

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

J. G. Holland

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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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 fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Picabia, Francis

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Michael J. Fox

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Agathon

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Seneca

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