Motivational Quotes

God

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

- Minor White

Best Quotes about God

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Agathon

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

J. G. Holland

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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 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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich