Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

Best Quotes about God

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

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Michael J. Fox

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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

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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 brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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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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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 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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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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 intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Herbert, George

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge