Motivational Quotes

God

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about God

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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.

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saadi

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Augustine, St.

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Michael J. Fox

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Peck, William M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

43.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich