Motivational Quotes

God

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about God

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.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

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.

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

Plotinus

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

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

Daly, Mary

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

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

Voltaire

18.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

20.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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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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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

24.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

25.

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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

William Blake

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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

42.

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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 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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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Saadi

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.