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

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

J. G. Holland

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

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Flavius Josephus

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Albert Einstein

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hugh Elliott

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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

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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Whitman, Walt

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

Luther, Martin

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Jewish Proverb

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Seneca

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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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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