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 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.

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

Tillich, Paul

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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.

One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

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 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.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

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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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Minor White

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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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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Webster, Daniel

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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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 didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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

Walker, Alice

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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

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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Yiddish