Motivational Quotes

God

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]

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Best Quotes about God

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

Minor White

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

Doris Egan

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

Stowell, Joseph

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Augustine, St.

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

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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]

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

Hugh Elliott

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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

18.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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

Seneca

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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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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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.

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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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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

42.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Webster, Daniel

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Homer