Motivational Quotes

God

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about God

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Butterworth, Eric

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Real Live Preacher

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Plotinus

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Albert Einstein

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Macdonald, George

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Frost, Robert

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.