Motivational Quotes

God

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

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

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

J. G. Holland

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Agathon

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Paley, William

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Minor White

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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 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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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Albert Einstein

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

William Blake

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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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Eckhart, Meister

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Aughey, John H.

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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