Motivational Quotes

God

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

- Gulbranson, Gary

Best Quotes about God

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Bai, Mira

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

Daly, Mary

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Layton, Irving

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

Williams, Ted

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Cotvos

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Doris Egan

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Minor White

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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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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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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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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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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 is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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