Motivational Quotes

God

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

- Margaret Atwood

Best Quotes about God

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

Flavius Josephus

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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.

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

Tillich, 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

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Voltaire

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Seneca

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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 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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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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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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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Law, William

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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

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John