Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

Simpson, A. B.

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

10.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

11.

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

Mairaux, Andre

13.

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

Anna Quindlen

14.

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

15.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

28.

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

Michael J. Fox

29.

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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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

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

Doris Egan

33.

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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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

35.

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

36.

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

Shakti Gawain

37.

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

Agathon

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

Daly, Mary

45.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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.

48.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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