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

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stowell, Joseph

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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]

Bible

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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

11.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

12.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Albert Einstein

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

William Blake

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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 is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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

Proverb

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

40.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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

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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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