Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about God

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

Brenda Ueland

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

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

Tauler, Johannes

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Daly, Mary

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Stowell, Joseph

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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

Michael J. Fox

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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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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

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Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

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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

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

Seneca

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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

William Blake

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

Law, William

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Flavius Josephus

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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bai, Mira

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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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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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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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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.

Coder, S. Maxwell

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If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.