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

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Layton, Irving

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Truett, George W.

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

Brenda Ueland

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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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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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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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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Sara B. Cooper

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tozer, A. W.

31.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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]

Bible

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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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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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

36.

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

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

Aughey, John H.

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

46.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

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

Macdonald, George

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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