Motivational Quotes

God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about God

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

Tozer, A. W.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

14.

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 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.

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

Bai, Mira

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Seneca

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

31.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

William Blake

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

Agathon

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

43.

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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

James Lileks

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

Macdonald, George

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.