Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

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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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

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

Michael J. Fox

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Voltaire

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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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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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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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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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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Doris Egan

39.

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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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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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