Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about God

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Luther, Martin

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, Ted

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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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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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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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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 we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Real Live Preacher

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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