Motivational Quotes

God

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about God

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Picabia, Francis

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.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Saadi

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Eckhart, Meister

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Simpson, A. B.

11.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

12.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

13.

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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

Peck, William M.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb

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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.

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Albert Einstein

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Doris Egan

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

J. G. Holland

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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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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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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

41.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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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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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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