Motivational Quotes

God

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about God

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Cotvos

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Brenda Ueland

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

11.

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

Truett, George W.

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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

Sara B. Cooper

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Albert Einstein

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

Doris Egan

30.

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

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

Agathon

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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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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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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 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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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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

William Blake

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.