Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mary Daly

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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

11.

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

12.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Tozer, A. W.

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

18.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

19.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Hugh Elliott

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Cotvos

30.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Seneca

34.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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

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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

37.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

38.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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

40.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

42.

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.

43.

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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

48.

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Daly, Mary