Motivational Quotes

God

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about God

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

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

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Seneca

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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

Brooks, Thomas

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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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.

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb

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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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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

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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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]

Bible

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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Doris Egan

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

J. G. Holland

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice