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

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

Doris Egan

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

Plotinus

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

Real Live Preacher

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Francis Cardinal Spellman

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Breton, Andre

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

Williams, Ted

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Eckhart, Meister

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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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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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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

Simpson, A. B.

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Weil, Simone

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

Saadi

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Flavius Josephus

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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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