Motivational Quotes

God

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about God

Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Eckhart, Meister

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

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

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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

11.

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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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Paley, William

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

20.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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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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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

29.

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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

Homer

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

J. G. Holland

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

Sara B. Cooper

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.