Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Walker, Alice

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

J. G. Holland

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Frost, Robert

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

13.

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

Irv Kupcinet

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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]

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21.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

23.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

24.

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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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

30.

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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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

32.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

33.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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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

38.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

39.

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

Agathon

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

Hugh Elliott

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar