Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Beckett, Samuel

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Steinem, Gloria

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

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

Doris Egan

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

Ramdas, Swami

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

25.

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Michael J. Fox

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

46.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

48.

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

Bai, Mira

49.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De