Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about God

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Eckhart, Meister

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Bai, Mira

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

12.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Agathon

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

Luther, Martin

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Saadi

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Albert Einstein

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster