Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

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

Mary Daly

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

Cioran, E. M.

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 has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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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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

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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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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.

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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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.

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

William Blake

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Saadi

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Irv Kupcinet

32.

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

33.

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

Doris Egan

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

Agathon

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Frost, Robert

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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