Motivational Quotes

God

When men make gods, there is no God!

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about God

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.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

Steinem, Gloria

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

10.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

11.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

14.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

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

Mary Daly

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

19.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

20.

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

Aughey, John H.

21.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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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 is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

24.

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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

29.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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

39.

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

Bai, Mira

40.

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

41.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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