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

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

Michael J. Fox

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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 is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Irv Kupcinet

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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

11.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

12.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

13.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

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

Peck, William M.

16.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

17.

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

Butterworth, Eric

18.

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

19.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Daly, Mary

23.

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

25.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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

27.

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

Tozer, A. W.

28.

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

Macdonald, George

29.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

30.

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.

31.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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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

33.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

34.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

35.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

36.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

37.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

38.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

39.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

40.

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

42.

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

Beckett, Samuel

43.

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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

45.

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

46.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Seneca

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