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

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

Luther, Martin

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

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.

Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Homer

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

Sir Julian Huxley

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

24.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Brooks, Thomas

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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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

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Real Live Preacher

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.