Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Luther, Martin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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]

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Michael J. Fox

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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

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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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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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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean