Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Simpson, A. B.

Best Quotes about God

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Seneca

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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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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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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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

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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Webster, Daniel