Motivational Quotes

God

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

- Newton, John

Best Quotes about God

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

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Homer

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Shakti Gawain

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Peck, William M.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Williams, Ted

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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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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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Agathon

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

Tozer, A. W.

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick