Motivational Quotes

God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about God

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

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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.

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

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

Albert Einstein

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

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

J. G. Holland

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Agathon

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Doris Egan

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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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

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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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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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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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 is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.