Motivational Quotes

God

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Proverb

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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.

11.

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

Voltaire

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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

15.

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

Augustine, 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

17.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

18.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

19.

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

Brenda Ueland

20.

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

21.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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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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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

25.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

28.

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

Bai, Mira

29.

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

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

32.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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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

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Mairaux, Andre

43.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

44.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

45.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Webster, Daniel

48.

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

49.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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