Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

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

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Minor White

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Eckhart, Meister

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Saadi

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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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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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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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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Herbert, George

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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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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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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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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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

William Blake

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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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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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