Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Truett, George W.

Best Quotes about God

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

James Lileks

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.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Homer

13.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Luther, Martin

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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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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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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