Motivational Quotes

God

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

- Joel S. Goldsmith

Best Quotes about God

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

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

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

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Paley, William

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

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Proverb

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

Heraclitus

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bai, Mira

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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.

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

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

Albert Einstein

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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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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Williams, Ted

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.