Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about God

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

Seneca

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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

Aughey, John H.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

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

Plotinus

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

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

William Blake

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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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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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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias

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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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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Hollingdale, R. J.

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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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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Daly, Mary

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Flavius Josephus