Motivational Quotes

God

I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.

- Little, Paul

Best Quotes about God

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

Heraclitus

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

J. G. Holland

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Eckhart, Meister

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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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

Paul, Jean

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Doris Egan

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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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IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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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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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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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher

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

Saadi

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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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If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

Tozer, A. W.

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God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Proverb, Jewish

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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Newton, John

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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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

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