Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

Saadi

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

Daly, Mary

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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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

Simpson, A. B.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Steinem, Gloria

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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

William Blake

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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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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 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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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.

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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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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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 didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Seneca

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aughey, John H.

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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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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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

Doris Egan

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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 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

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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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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