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

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mairaux, Andre

10.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

11.

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

12.

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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

15.

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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

19.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Seneca

22.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

30.

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

Sara B. Cooper

31.

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

Sir Julian Huxley

32.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

33.

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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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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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

36.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

37.

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

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Flavius Josephus

40.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

41.

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

Jewish Proverb

42.

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

43.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Paley, William

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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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