Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Tozer, A. W.

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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Webster, Daniel

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Stowell, Joseph

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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

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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Doris Egan

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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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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Bai, Mira

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge