Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

J. G. Holland

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

Plotinus

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

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

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

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Real Live Preacher

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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

18.

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

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

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

Peck, William M.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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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

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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 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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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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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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.