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

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

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Proverb

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

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.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

21.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

24.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

30.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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.

33.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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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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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland