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

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

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

Luther, Martin

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Agathon

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Stowell, Joseph

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Mother Teresa

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

Webster, Daniel

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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