Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Williams, Ted

Best Quotes about God

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

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

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

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

Seneca

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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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

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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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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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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Peck, William M.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Truett, George W.

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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

Albert Einstein

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Seneca

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn