Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about God

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

Proverb

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

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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

Anna Quindlen

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

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bai, Mira

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

11.

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

Doris Egan

12.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

14.

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

James Lileks

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Saadi

17.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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

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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

20.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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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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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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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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

27.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Eckhart, Meister

30.

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

Williams, Tennessee

31.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen

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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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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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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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

Simpson, A. B.

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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

42.

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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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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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