Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Herbert, George

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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

Simpson, A. B.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

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

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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

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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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 think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Mairaux, Andre

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Saadi

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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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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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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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.