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

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Mairaux, Andre

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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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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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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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

William Blake

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

38.

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

Picabia, Francis

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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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