Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Pascal, Blaise

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Beckett, Samuel

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Agathon

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

23.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Daly, Mary

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

Hugh Elliott

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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

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Seneca

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

William Blake

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

39.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.