Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Sir Julian Huxley

Best Quotes about God

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

Brenda Ueland

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Bai, Mira

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

Luther, Martin

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

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]

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

Mairaux, Andre

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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 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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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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]

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

Jewish Proverb

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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 has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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

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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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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Michael J. Fox

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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]

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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