Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about God

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Eckhart, Meister

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Saadi

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

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

Michael J. Fox

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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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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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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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Williams, Ted

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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

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

Aughey, John H.

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Mary Daly

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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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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

40.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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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 Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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

Cioran, E. M.