Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Real Live Preacher

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

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

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

10.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

11.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

12.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

13.

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

14.

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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Albert Einstein

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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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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

25.

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

26.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

J. G. Holland

30.

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

Williams, Tennessee

31.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

32.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

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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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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.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

38.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb

42.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk