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

Pascal, Blaise

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Webster, Daniel

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Jewish Proverb

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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Truett, George W.

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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

William Blake

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Herbert, George

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

Homer

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

Shakti Gawain

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Simpson, A. B.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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 is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Williams, Ted