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

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

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

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

Agathon

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

Plotinus

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

Paul, Jean

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

12.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tozer, A. W.

15.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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

18.

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 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.

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

Homer

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

Walker, Alice

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

30.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Minor White

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

40.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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 clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Flavius Josephus