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

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

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

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

Saadi

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

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Peck, William M.

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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Cioran, E. M.

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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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 say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Homer

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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Bai, Mira

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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