Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

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

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

Truett, George W.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Seneca

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Agathon

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Blake

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Doris Egan

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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.

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick