Motivational Quotes

God

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

- Satta, Salvatore

Best Quotes about God

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

Augustine, St.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Simpson, A. B.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

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

Seneca

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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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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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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

Qur'an

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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 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

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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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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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

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

Bai, Mira

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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.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted