Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Beckett, Samuel

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Albert Einstein

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Ramdas, Swami

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Eckhart, Meister

10.

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

11.

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

Eckhart, Meister

12.

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 is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

14.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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 gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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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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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Agathon

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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

24.

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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Aughey, John H.

29.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

34.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Williams, Tennessee

46.

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

47.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

48.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

49.

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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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