Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about God

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Ramdas, Swami

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Walker, Alice

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Peck, William M.

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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Homer

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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Luther, Martin

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Heraclitus

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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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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

Canetti, Elias

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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.