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

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shakti Gawain

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heraclitus

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Saadi

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

Jewish Proverb

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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 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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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Proverb