Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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

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

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Saadi

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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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.

14.

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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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 can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plotinus

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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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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Albert Einstein

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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Webster, Daniel

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

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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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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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

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

Williams, Ted

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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