Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about God

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Heraclitus

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Layton, Irving

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

Augustine, St.

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Homer

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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

Tillich, Paul

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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.

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

William Blake

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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