Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Francis Cardinal Spellman

Best Quotes about God

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Mary Daly

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

11.

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Herbert, George

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

Brooks, Thomas

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

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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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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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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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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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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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]

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

31.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

32.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

33.

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 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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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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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.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Bai, Mira

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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

43.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

47.

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Webster, Daniel

49.

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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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