Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Albert Einstein

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

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

Picabia, Francis

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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]

Bible

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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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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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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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

Michael J. Fox

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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 know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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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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

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.