Motivational Quotes

God

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

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Best Quotes about God

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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.

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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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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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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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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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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Seneca

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

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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

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

William Blake

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Seneca

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

Agathon

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb