Motivational Quotes

God

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

- Brenda Ueland

Best Quotes about God

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Mary Daly

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Cotvos

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Seneca

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Bai, Mira

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.