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

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

Voltaire

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

Layton, Irving

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

Simpson, A. B.

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.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

J. G. Holland

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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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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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Homer

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Heraclitus

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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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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Peck, William M.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

37.

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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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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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 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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Flavius Josephus

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Eckhart, Meister

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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.