Motivational Quotes

God

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about God

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Doris Egan

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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.

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

J. G. Holland

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

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

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Proverb

12.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

13.

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

Law, William

14.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Jewish Proverb

21.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Williams, Ted

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

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

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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Augustine, St.

47.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

48.

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

Hugh Elliott

49.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Butterworth, Eric