Motivational Quotes

God

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about God

W. Somerset Maugham

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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 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.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Truett, George W.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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

12.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Mary Daly

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

Brenda Ueland

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

Doris Egan

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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

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Herbert, George

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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