Motivational Quotes

God

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

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Best Quotes about God

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

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

Canetti, Elias

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Sara B. Cooper

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

J. G. Holland

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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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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

James Lileks

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Simpson, A. B.

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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 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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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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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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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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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Williams, Ted

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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