Motivational Quotes

God

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about God

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

Jewish Proverb

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

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

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

Proverb

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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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

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

Homer

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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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 is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Voltaire

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

Williams, Ted

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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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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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

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

Sara B. Cooper