Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Bai, Mira

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The gods too are fond of a joke.