Motivational Quotes

God

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

- Indian Proverb

Best Quotes about God

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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

Seneca

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Plotinus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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

Bai, Mira

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

Law, William

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Blake

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

Proverb

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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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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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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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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

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Homer

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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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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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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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