Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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

Homer

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Peck, William M.

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Heraclitus

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

William Blake

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

Agathon

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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

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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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.

44.

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]

Bible

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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 know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene