Motivational Quotes

God

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about God

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Shakti Gawain

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

James Lileks

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

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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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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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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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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 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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saadi

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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

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

William Blake

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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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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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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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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

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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