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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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

Brenda Ueland

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

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Williams, Ted

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

Walker, Alice

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Agathon

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Cioran, E. M.

30.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

31.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

32.

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

Albert Einstein

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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

Irv Kupcinet

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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