Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

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.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Ramdas, Swami

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Peck, William M.

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

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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 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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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

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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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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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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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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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

William Blake

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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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

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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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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

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

Williams, Ted

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

Albert Einstein

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.