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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Daly, Mary

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

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

William Blake

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bai, Mira

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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 concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Herbert, George

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Jewish Proverb

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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 glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore