Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

Homer

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Augustine, St.

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

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

J. G. Holland

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Flavius Josephus

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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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

Saadi

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

19.

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Macdonald, George

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

Walker, Alice

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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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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 always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Seneca

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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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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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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Butterworth, Eric