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

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Tozer, A. W.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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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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Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

19.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Brooks, Thomas

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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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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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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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

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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

J. G. Holland

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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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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.