Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

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

Simpson, A. B.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

11.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

Saadi

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Paul, Jean

21.

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

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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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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.

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

30.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

38.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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.

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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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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 experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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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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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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

Williams, Ted

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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 myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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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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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