Motivational Quotes

God

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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Best Quotes about God

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

Saadi

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

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

Homer

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

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

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

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

Agathon

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Williams, Ted

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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

Seneca

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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

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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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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 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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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 bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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