Motivational Quotes

God

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

- Mairaux, Andre

Best Quotes about God

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

Proverb

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

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.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Paul, Jean

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

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

12.

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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

14.

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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Luther, Martin

17.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

18.

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

Webster, Daniel

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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

20.

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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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

25.

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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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

28.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

Bible

30.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

32.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

36.

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

Augustine, St.

40.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

41.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John