Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about God

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

Doris Egan

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

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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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

16.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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

18.

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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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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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

38.

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 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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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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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

45.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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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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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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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