Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, Yiddish

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hugh Elliott

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Peck, William M.

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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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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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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

Doris Egan

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Stowell, Joseph

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Luther, Martin

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Bai, Mira

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

Bible

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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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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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

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

Brenda Ueland

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Tillich, Paul

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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