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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Brenda Ueland

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

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

Albert Einstein

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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

Layton, Irving

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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

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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Brooks, Thomas

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Williams, Ted

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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 God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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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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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Cotvos

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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 guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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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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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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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

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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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]

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Picabia, Francis

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heraclitus