Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

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.

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

Picabia, Francis

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Saadi

15.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

17.

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

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

Bai, Mira

20.

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

27.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Real Live Preacher

29.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

30.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

31.

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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32.

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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]

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

35.

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

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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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sara B. Cooper

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.