Motivational Quotes

God

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

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Best Quotes about God

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

William Blake

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

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Truett, George W.

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.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Minor White

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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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 found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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

Picabia, Francis

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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