Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about God

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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 is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stowell, Joseph

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Agathon

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Paley, William

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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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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Michael J. Fox

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

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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