Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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

Herbert, George

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

Albert Einstein

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

Peck, William M.

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

Heraclitus

28.

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

Webster, Daniel

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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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