Motivational Quotes

God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about God

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

Tillich, Paul

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

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

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

Bai, Mira

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Seneca

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

Saadi

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Jewish Proverb

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Shakti Gawain

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Luther, Martin

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Michael J. Fox

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Truett, George W.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

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