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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Shakti Gawain

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

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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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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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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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

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mary Daly

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Williams, Ted

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Seneca

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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]

Bible

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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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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