Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about God

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Tillich, Paul

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Webster, Daniel

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Doris Egan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Heraclitus

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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

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Bai, Mira

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

Mary Daly

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Tozer, A. W.

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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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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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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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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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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle