Motivational Quotes

God

God is clever, but not dishonest.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about God

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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

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

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

Flavius Josephus

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Stowell, Joseph

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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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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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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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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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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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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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.

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

Tillich, Paul

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Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?

Hoffman, Oswald C.

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We want God to come and save us. But he wonÆt. God doesnÆt stop levees from failing, he doesnÆt stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesnÆt stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant

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

Shakti Gawain

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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Truett, George W.

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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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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 didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Weil, Simone

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

Walker, Alice

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As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Saadi

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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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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.