Motivational Quotes

God

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

- Ramdas, Swami

Best Quotes about God

I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Anouilh, Jean

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

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

Peck, William M.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Sara B. Cooper

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

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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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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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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eckhart, Meister

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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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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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

Saadi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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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 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 the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Proverb

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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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God is clever, but not dishonest.