Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Walker, Alice

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

Albert Einstein

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

Agathon

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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 only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Doris Egan

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Waiter Rant

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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