Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Voltaire

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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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

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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

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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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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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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

28.

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 hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Michael J. Fox

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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.

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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

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

William Blake

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Simpson, A. B.

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Eckhart, Meister

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