Motivational Quotes

God

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about God

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

Hugh Elliott

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

J. G. Holland

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.

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

Little, Paul

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Saadi

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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

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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Stowell, Joseph