Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about God

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

Jewish Proverb

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.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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

Peck, William M.

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.