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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Webster, Daniel

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Simpson, A. B.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Peck, William M.

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

J. G. Holland

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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

Homer

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Proverb