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

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Seneca

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.

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

Hugh Elliott

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

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Saadi

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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 found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

James Lileks

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

Simpson, A. B.

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Anna Quindlen

25.

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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Paul, Jean

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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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.

31.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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]

Bible

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Beckett, Samuel

34.

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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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

Williams, Ted

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jewish Proverb

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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.

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene