Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

William Blake

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

11.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

12.

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

Daly, Mary

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Albert Einstein

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Brenda Ueland

21.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heraclitus

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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

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

Sara B. Cooper

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Tozer, A. W.

31.

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

Williams, Ted

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb

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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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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

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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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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

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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