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

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Law, William

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

10.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Mairaux, Andre

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Saadi

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Doris Egan

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Plotinus

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

Homer

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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

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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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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Tillich, Paul

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Bai, Mira

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

Real Live Preacher

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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