Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Brenda Ueland

Best Quotes about God

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Michael J. Fox

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mairaux, Andre

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saadi

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Minor White

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

William Blake

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Peck, William M.

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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]

Bible

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

Seneca

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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

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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