Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

Peck, William M.

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.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Albert Einstein

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Tillich, Paul

10.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

11.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

12.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

13.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

17.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

18.

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

Eckhart, Meister

19.

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

20.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

21.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

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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

24.

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.

25.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

26.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

27.

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

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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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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

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

31.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

38.

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

39.

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

Mary Daly

40.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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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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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.

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

47.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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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.