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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Agathon

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.

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

Paley, William

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Tozer, A. W.

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Peck, William M.

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

Saadi

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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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.

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Herbert, George

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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

Tillich, Paul

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Seneca

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

Jewish Proverb

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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 think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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