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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

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

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

11.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Heraclitus

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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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Michael J. Fox

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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

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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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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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 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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.

41.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Blake

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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