Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Shakti Gawain

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

12.

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

Picabia, Francis

13.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

14.

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

Paul, Jean

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 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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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

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

Seneca

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Luther, Martin

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mairaux, Andre

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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]

Bible

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Brenda Ueland

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Jewish Proverb

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya