Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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

J. G. Holland

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

Sara B. Cooper

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

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Homer

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

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan

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

Aughey, John H.

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

Albert Einstein

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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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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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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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!

Little, Paul

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

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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

Shakti Gawain

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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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One and God make a majority.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Walker, Alice

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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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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Agathon

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

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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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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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

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

Cioran, E. M.