Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

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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

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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]

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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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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 is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Jewish Proverb

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 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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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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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]

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