Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

Eckhart, Meister

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Paley, William

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

10.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

12.

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

Walker, Alice

13.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

14.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

15.

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

Heraclitus

16.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

17.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

18.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

19.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

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20.

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

Flavius Josephus

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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

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

24.

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

25.

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

26.

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

Augustine, St.

27.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

28.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert, George

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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

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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

45.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

46.

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

47.

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

Mairaux, Andre

48.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

49.

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

Webster, Daniel