Motivational Quotes

God

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

- Anna Quindlen

Best Quotes about God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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 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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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 know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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

Truett, George W.

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Cotvos

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

31.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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.

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm