Motivational Quotes

God

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about God

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Doris Egan

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

Brenda Ueland

God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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

Eckhart, Meister

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

19.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

20.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

21.

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

22.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Plotinus

24.

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

Law, William

25.

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

26.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

27.

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

Heraclitus

28.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

29.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

30.

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

31.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Brookner, Anita

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Flecker, James Elroy

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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

35.

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

Daly, Mary

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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

38.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Tozer, A. W.

40.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

43.

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 one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von