Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about God

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

Truett, George W.

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

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

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

Sir Julian Huxley

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Heraclitus

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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Brenda Ueland

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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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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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Brooks, Thomas

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

Proverb

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Herbert, George

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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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

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

Tillich, Paul

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus