Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Paley, William

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Seneca

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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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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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

14.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

15.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

18.

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

Homer

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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

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

22.

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.

23.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doris Egan

28.

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

29.

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

Saadi

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Voltaire

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Heraclitus

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Bai, Mira

44.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

45.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

46.

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

47.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

48.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

49.

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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De