Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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]

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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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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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

J. G. Holland

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

William Blake

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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Minor White

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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Albert Einstein

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bai, Mira

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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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tillich, Paul

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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]

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