Motivational Quotes

God

You have to believe in gods to see them.

- saying, Hopi Indian

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

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

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, George

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Tillich, Paul

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

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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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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

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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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 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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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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Picabia, Francis

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.