Motivational Quotes

God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

- Redgrave, Lynn

Best Quotes about God

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

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

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

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

Jewish Proverb

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.

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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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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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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Minor White

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

Homer

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

Shakti Gawain

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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Agathon

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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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

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

Luther, Martin