Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Albert Einstein

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Simpson, A. B.

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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.

Qur'an

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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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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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, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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]

Bible

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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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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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Eckhart, Meister