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

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

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Doris Egan

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

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

Williams, Ted

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

Beckett, Samuel

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.

10.

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

11.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

12.

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

13.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

14.

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

15.

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

Anna Quindlen

16.

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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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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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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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

20.

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

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

Brenda Ueland

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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

Mairaux, Andre

27.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

Bible

28.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

29.

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

Macdonald, George

30.

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

Stowell, Joseph

31.

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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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.

34.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Seneca

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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

41.

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

Picabia, Francis

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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Eckhart, Meister

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

44.

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

Real Live Preacher

45.

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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There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

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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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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.

49.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Bai, Mira