Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about God

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

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Shakti Gawain

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Paley, William

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Picabia, Francis

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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]

Bible

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

Brenda Ueland

12.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

18.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

19.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Daly, Mary

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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 cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

30.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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]

Bible

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

Mairaux, Andre

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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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

Agathon

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

43.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Law, William

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar