Motivational Quotes

God

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about God

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Butterworth, Eric

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Webster, Daniel

If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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

Tillich, Paul

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

William Blake

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

Herbert, George

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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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At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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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 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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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

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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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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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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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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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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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.

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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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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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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Augustine, St.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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