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God Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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…
- Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
- The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should…
- Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then…
- Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where…
- The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing Gods work.
More God Quotes
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker