Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about God

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

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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.

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

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Macdonald, George

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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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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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

Truett, George W.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Mairaux, Andre

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

Peck, William M.

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

Flavius Josephus

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