Motivational Quotes

God

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

- Heed, Wilfrid

Best Quotes about God

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

Daly, Mary

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

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Doris Egan

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

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Webster, Daniel

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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

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Saadi

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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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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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Mairaux, Andre

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Voltaire

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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

Bai, Mira

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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.

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.