Motivational Quotes

God

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

- Redgrave, Lynn

Best Quotes about God

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Plotinus

11.

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 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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

21.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

32.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

33.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Seneca

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

Albert Einstein

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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.

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar