Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Agathon

Best Quotes about God

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

Heraclitus

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

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Jewish Proverb

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

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

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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

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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Albert Einstein

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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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

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Real Live Preacher

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm