Motivational Quotes

God

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

- Truett, George W.

Best Quotes about God

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Walker, Alice

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

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

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

William Blake

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.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Tillich, Paul

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

Eckhart, Meister

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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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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EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

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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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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

Flecker, James Elroy

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Eckhart, Meister

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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Peck, William M.

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

Real Live Preacher

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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

Picabia, Francis

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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 clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Williams, Ted

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.