Motivational Quotes

God

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about God

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

Hugh Elliott

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

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Albert Einstein

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

Agathon

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Williams, Ted

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

William Blake

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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

Michael J. Fox

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ramdas, Swami

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Wiesel, Elie

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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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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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

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