Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Sara B. Cooper

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Agathon

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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]

Bible

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Michael J. Fox

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen