Motivational Quotes

God

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

- Daly, Mary

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Picabia, Francis

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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 infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Tozer, A. W.

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Shakti Gawain

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Bai, Mira

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

Albert Einstein

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

Law, William

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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.