Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about God

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

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.

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

Saadi

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Brenda Ueland

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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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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Agathon

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

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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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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Albert Einstein

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Augustine, St.

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Seneca

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

Shakti Gawain

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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