Motivational Quotes

God

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

- Homer

Best Quotes about God

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Tozer, A. W.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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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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 God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

Saadi

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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

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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

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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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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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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Walker, Alice

35.

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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Aughey, John H.

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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 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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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

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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: 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, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Flavius Josephus