Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about God

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Truett, George W.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

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

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Cotvos

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

James Lileks

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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.

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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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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Beckett, Samuel

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Brenda Ueland

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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

Jewish Proverb

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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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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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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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