Motivational Quotes

God

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

- Mairaux, Andre

Best Quotes about God

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Aughey, John H.

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Heraclitus

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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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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]

Bible

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

William Blake

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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

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Tozer, A. W.

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Doris Egan

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Williams, Ted

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Peck, William M.

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.