Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about God

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

Sara B. Cooper

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Agathon

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

Bai, Mira

10.

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

Peck, William M.

11.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

12.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

13.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Cotvos

21.

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]

Bible

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

28.

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

Plotinus

29.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

30.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

31.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

33.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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 myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

38.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

39.

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

Butterworth, Eric

40.

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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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

44.

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

45.

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

Frost, Robert