Motivational Quotes

God

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

Real Live Preacher

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Daly, Mary

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

12.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

J. G. Holland

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

William Blake

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

Williams, Ted

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

Shakti Gawain

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Macdonald, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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