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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Homer

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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

13.

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

Augustine, St.

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

18.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

21.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Simpson, A. B.

23.

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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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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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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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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

30.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

32.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Proverb

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

Minor White

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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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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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.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman