Motivational Quotes

God

One and God make a majority.

- Douglass, Frederick

Best Quotes about God

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

Seneca

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Eckhart, Meister

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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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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

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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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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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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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.

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mary Daly