Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Daly, Mary

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Homer

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

Seneca

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

Williams, Ted

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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 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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

William Blake

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The