Motivational Quotes

God

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about God

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Doris Egan

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

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

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

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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 is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

William Blake

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami