Motivational Quotes

God

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

J. G. Holland

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Truett, George W.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Butterworth, Eric

12.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

15.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Augustine, St.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

19.

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

Saadi

20.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

21.

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

Brooks, Thomas

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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

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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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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

29.

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

Williams, Ted

30.

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

33.

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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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

35.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

36.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

37.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

40.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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

Plotinus

42.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

43.

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

44.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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 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.

48.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

49.

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

Frost, Robert

50.

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

William Blake