Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Simpson, A. B.

Best Quotes about God

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Jewish Proverb

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

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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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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

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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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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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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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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Albert Einstein

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Bataille, Georges

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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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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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Tozer, A. W.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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.