Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about God

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

William Blake

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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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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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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

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

Homer

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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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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

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Doris Egan

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

Heraclitus

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

Peck, William M.

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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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.