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

Paley, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Aughey, John H.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Peck, William M.

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Albert Einstein

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Agathon

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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Simpson, A. B.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Mary Daly

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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

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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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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Doris Egan

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

49.

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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel