Motivational Quotes

God

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.

Best Quotes about God

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

William Blake

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

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.

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

10.

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

Truett, George W.

11.

God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

12.

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

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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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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

15.

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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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Augustine, St.

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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

18.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

Daly, Mary

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

J. G. Holland

21.

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

Doris Egan

22.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

23.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Seneca

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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

Strawson, Galen

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

Albert Einstein

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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

Seneca

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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

31.

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

Anna Quindlen

33.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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When I was young, I said to God,god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered,that knowledge is for me alone. So I said,god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said,well, George, that's more nearly your size.

Carver, George Washington

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

39.

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

Picabia, Francis

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We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Weil, Simone

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tillich, Paul

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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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