Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Frost, Robert

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

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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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

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell