Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

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

Seneca

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Layton, Irving

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

Brooks, Thomas

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Jewish Proverb

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Einstein, Albert

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Voltaire

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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 has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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

Steinem, Gloria

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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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

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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