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

Whitman, Walt

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Shakti Gawain

19.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Mary Daly

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

Frost, Robert

25.

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

Daly, Mary

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

28.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Peck, William M.

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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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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

33.

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

Doris Egan

34.

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 is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Jewish Proverb

37.

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

Williams, Tennessee

38.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

40.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

41.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

42.

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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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

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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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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 is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

47.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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