Motivational Quotes

God

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

- Michael J. Fox

Best Quotes about God

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

Plotinus

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

Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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 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

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

Bai, Mira

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

Voltaire

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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 gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Minor White

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

Flavius Josephus

37.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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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

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Tozer, A. W.

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Picabia, Francis

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Einstein, Albert

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister