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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Agathon

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

Butterworth, Eric

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Jewish Proverb

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

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Butterworth, Eric

10.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Homer

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

16.

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

William Blake

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Saadi

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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

23.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

24.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

25.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Tillich, Paul

31.

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

Heraclitus

33.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

34.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

38.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tozer, A. W.

40.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

41.

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

Irv Kupcinet

42.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

43.

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

44.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

48.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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.