Motivational Quotes

God

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

- Daly, Mary

Best Quotes about God

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Cotvos

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

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

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

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

Agathon

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

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Doris Egan

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

Simpson, A. B.

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Brenda Ueland

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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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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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