Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about God

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

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Williams, Ted

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

Joubert, Joseph

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Seneca

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Peck, William M.

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

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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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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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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

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

Webster, Daniel

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Picabia, Francis

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

William Blake

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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