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

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Maclaren, Alexander

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Williams, Ted

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

Brenda Ueland

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

10.

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

Butterworth, Eric

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

13.

We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

14.

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

Homer

15.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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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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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

21.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

26.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

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

Williams, Tennessee

28.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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

Voltaire

32.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

33.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

35.

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

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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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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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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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

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

43.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Saadi

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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