Motivational Quotes

God

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about God

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Williams, Ted

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Seneca

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

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

Daly, Mary

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

William Blake

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Doris Egan

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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bai, Mira

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Albert Einstein

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Paul, Jean

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

Brenda Ueland

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.