Motivational Quotes

God

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

- Anna Quindlen

Best Quotes about God

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Tozer, A. W.

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Herbert, George

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Doris Egan

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Heraclitus

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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Simpson, A. B.

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