Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Homer

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

Beckett, Samuel

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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 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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

William Blake

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

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Agathon

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

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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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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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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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

Shakti Gawain

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Albert Einstein

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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.