Motivational Quotes

God

Man proposes, but God disposes.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Seneca

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Frost, Robert

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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 would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

William Blake

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.