Motivational Quotes

God

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about God

When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

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

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

Mairaux, Andre

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Albert Einstein

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

16.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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 gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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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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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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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Williams, Ted

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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

Voltaire

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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

Jewish Proverb

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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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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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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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

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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.

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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