Motivational Quotes

God

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about God

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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

Albert Einstein

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

William Blake

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Williams, Ted

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

14.

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.

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

Williams, Tennessee

20.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

21.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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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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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

30.

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

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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

32.

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 external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

34.

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

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

38.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

40.

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

Stowell, Joseph

42.

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

43.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

44.

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

Webster, Daniel

45.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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

49.

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

Frost, Robert

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich