Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Sir Julian Huxley

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Brenda Ueland

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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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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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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Seneca

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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.

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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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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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]

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

Augustine, St.

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

47.

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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

Jewish Proverb

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