Motivational Quotes

God

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

- Brooks, Thomas

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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.

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

10.

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

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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Walker, Alice

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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

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

Plotinus

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

30.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Proverb

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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

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

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

Voltaire

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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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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Agathon

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

Eckhart, Meister

44.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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 bastard! He doesn't exist!