Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Norwich, Julian of

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Shakti Gawain

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Blake

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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Albert Einstein

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Flavius Josephus