Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Agathon

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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

18.

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

Michael J. Fox

19.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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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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

22.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Seneca

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Augustine, St.

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

Plotinus