Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about God

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Flavius Josephus

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

10.

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

11.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

12.

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

Herbert, George

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

14.

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

J. G. Holland

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

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]

Bible

19.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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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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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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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, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

29.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Heraclitus

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Albert Einstein

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

William Blake

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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

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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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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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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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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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