Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Walker, Alice

Best Quotes about God

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

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

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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.

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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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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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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 know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Michael J. Fox

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