Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Herbert, George

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Flavius Josephus

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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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 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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Seneca

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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

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

Brenda Ueland

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Homer

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mairaux, Andre

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

William Blake

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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