Motivational Quotes

God

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about God

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Agathon

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

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

Homer

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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hugh Elliott

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

15.

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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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 subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

31.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

37.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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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

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Butterworth, Eric

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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 is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.