Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Flavius Josephus

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Heraclitus

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Luther, Martin

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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 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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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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]

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

Picabia, Francis

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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

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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 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

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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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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.

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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.

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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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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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

Saadi

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.