Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Steinem, Gloria

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Williams, Ted

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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

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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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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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 not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

32.

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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

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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 is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice