Motivational Quotes

God

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about God

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

Walker, Alice

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

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Homer

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

William Blake

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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'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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

Heraclitus

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

Minor White

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Tillich, Paul

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