Motivational Quotes

God

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

- J. G. Holland

Best Quotes about God

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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]

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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Voltaire

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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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

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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Blake

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

J. G. Holland

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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Williams, Ted

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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

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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