Motivational Quotes

God

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about God

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

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Albert Einstein

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.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

10.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

11.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

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.

14.

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

William Blake

15.

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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

17.

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

Albert Einstein

18.

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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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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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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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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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

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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 has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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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

28.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

29.

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

Anna Quindlen

30.

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

Minor White

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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

32.

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

33.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

34.

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

Truett, George W.

35.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

37.

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

Sara B. Cooper

39.

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

Mary Daly

40.

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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

42.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

43.

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.

44.

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

Seneca

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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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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

48.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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