Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Saadi

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Mairaux, Andre

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

J. G. Holland

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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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Little, Paul

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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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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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bai, Mira

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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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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.

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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

36.

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

Hugh Elliott

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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