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

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

Seneca

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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

11.

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

Webster, Daniel

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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 only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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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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.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Paley, William

28.

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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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

34.

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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Steinem, Gloria

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Albert Einstein

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

49.

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

J. G. Holland