Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Flavius Josephus

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Cioran, E. M.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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

Homer

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

Hugh Elliott

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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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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

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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 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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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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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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.