Motivational Quotes

God

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

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about God

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Hoffer, Eric

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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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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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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Ziglar, Zig

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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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 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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Haggai, John

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Sara B. Cooper

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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Minor White

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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Steinem, Gloria

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

46.

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

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Heraclitus

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

Flecker, James Elroy