Motivational Quotes

God

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about God

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.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

11.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Macdonald, George

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

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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

Seneca

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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 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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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

40.

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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Williams, Ted

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Heraclitus