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

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Brenda Ueland

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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

Voltaire

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

Macdonald, George

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Augustine, St.

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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 always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Daly, Mary

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

Saadi

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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 must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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

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

Doris Egan

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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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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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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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]

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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