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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

Herbert, George

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

10.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

11.

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

12.

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

Butterworth, Eric

13.

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

Tillich, Paul

14.

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

15.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Beckett, Samuel

17.

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

Eckhart, Meister

18.

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

Hugh Elliott

20.

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

Ramdas, Swami

21.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Tozer, A. W.

24.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

25.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

32.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

James Lileks

35.

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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

39.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

40.

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

41.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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

44.

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

Frost, Robert

45.

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Bai, Mira

49.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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