Motivational Quotes

God

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about God

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Macdonald, George

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

Sara B. Cooper

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

11.

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

Saadi

12.

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

Augustine, St.

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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

14.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Agathon

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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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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

21.

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

William Blake

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Voltaire

28.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

29.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

33.

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

Flavius Josephus

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Simpson, A. B.

46.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Butterworth, Eric

48.

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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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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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving