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

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

Jewish Proverb

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Albert Einstein

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

William Blake

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Heraclitus

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

Herbert, George

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Doris Egan

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Whitman, Walt

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

J. G. Holland

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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.