Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte 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

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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

Webster, Daniel

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

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Seneca

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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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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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Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Aughey, John H.

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

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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

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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

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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Angelou, Maya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Eckhart, Meister

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