Motivational Quotes

God

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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Best Quotes about God

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Paley, William

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Homer

13.

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

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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

18.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

19.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

20.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

21.

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

24.

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

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

29.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Minor White

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

Albert Einstein

36.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

39.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Heraclitus

41.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

42.

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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

48.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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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.

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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