Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about God

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

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

William Blake

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

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

Homer

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Agathon

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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]

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

Heraclitus

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Doris Egan

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

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Augustine, St.

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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.

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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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.

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bai, Mira

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Irv Kupcinet

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich