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 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.

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

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Augustine, St.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

18.

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

Seneca

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Michael J. Fox

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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.

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Agathon

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Seneca

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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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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.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

35.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

Picabia, Francis

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Cioran, E. M.

40.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

42.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ramdas, Swami

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

46.

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

47.

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

Aughey, John H.

49.

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

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel