Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about God

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

Bai, Mira

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

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Flecker, James Elroy

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Simpson, A. B.

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Heraclitus

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

Saadi

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Williams, Ted

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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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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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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Doris Egan

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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

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

William Blake

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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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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 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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce