Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Flavius Josephus

Best Quotes about God

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

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Aughey, John H.

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Daly, Mary

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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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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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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 hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Cotvos

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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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