Motivational Quotes

God

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]

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Best Quotes about God

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Luther, Martin

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Williams, Ted

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Homer

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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]

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb

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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

Saadi

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

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

Sara B. Cooper

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

Agathon

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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire