Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Plotinus

Best Quotes about God

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

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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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

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

21.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Seneca

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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

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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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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Layton, Irving

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

Bai, Mira

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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