Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about God

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

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

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Homer

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tillich, Paul

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich