Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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

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

Luther, Martin

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

William Blake

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

18.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Macdonald, George

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

28.

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Saadi

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

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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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Doris Egan

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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