Motivational Quotes

God

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb

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

Truett, George W.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Hugh Elliott

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

Williams, Ted

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

Homer

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voltaire

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Saadi

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Eckhart, Meister

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

J. G. Holland

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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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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.