Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bible

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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

Aughey, John H.

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Williams, Ted

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stowell, Joseph

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Shakti Gawain

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

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

Brenda Ueland

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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

Heraclitus

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When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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You are within God. God is within you.