Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Best Quotes about God

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

Irv Kupcinet

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Sir Julian Huxley

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Albert Einstein

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Homer

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Paley, William

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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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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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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.