Motivational Quotes

God

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

- Homer

Best Quotes about God

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

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

Flavius Josephus

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Picabia, Francis

There is no God but God.

Koran, The

10.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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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'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Doris Egan

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

Bai, Mira

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

17.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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]

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

William Blake

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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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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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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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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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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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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 not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Seneca

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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

Frost, Robert

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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.