Motivational Quotes

God

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

- Bible

Best Quotes about God

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Plotinus

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

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Heraclitus

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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 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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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]

Bible

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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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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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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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

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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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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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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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George