Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Simpson, A. B.

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

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

Aughey, John H.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

11.

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Daly, Mary

25.

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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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

Real Live Preacher

29.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Luther, Martin

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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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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

43.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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

45.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

49.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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.