Motivational Quotes

God

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Agathon

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

Williams, Ted

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

William Blake

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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Hugh Elliott

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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

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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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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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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von