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

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

Bible

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

Picabia, Francis

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Stowell, Joseph

12.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Brenda Ueland

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Tozer, A. W.

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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 someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis