Motivational Quotes

God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about God

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Augustine, St.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Simpson, A. B.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

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

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Macdonald, George

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

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Saadi

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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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

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Brenda Ueland

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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 someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Proverb

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

Flavius Josephus

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas