Motivational Quotes

God

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Best Quotes about God

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

Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Brooks, Thomas

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

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.

10.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

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

12.

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

Plotinus

13.

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

Truett, George W.

14.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

16.

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

18.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

19.

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

20.

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

William Blake

21.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

22.

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

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

26.

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

Agathon

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

29.

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

30.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

31.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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 God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

34.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

35.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Luther, Martin

37.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

38.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

43.

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

44.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

45.

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'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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire