Motivational Quotes

God

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about God

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

Eckhart, Meister

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Anna Quindlen

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tozer, A. W.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

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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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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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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Shakti Gawain

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Aughey, John H.

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

38.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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