Motivational Quotes

God

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about God

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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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.

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Macdonald, George

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voltaire

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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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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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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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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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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

William Blake

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von