Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Seneca

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

20.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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 is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Michael J. Fox

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

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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Peck, William M.

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Tozer, A. W.

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis