Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about God

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Paley, William

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

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

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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Stowell, Joseph

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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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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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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

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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 is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Paul, Jean

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb

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

Bai, Mira

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