Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about God

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

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

Brenda Ueland

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Real Live Preacher

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

10.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

11.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Macdonald, George

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

20.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

28.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

29.

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

Daly, Mary

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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

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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Luther, Martin

40.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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 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

49.

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