Motivational Quotes

God

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

- Flavius Josephus

Best Quotes about God

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Seneca

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stowell, Joseph

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paley, William

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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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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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 gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Proverb

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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Doris Egan

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Butterworth, Eric

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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