Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Sir Julian Huxley

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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.

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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Agathon

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Churchill, Winston

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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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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore