Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

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.

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

J. G. Holland

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Seneca

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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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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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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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

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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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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joubert, Joseph

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Auden, W. H.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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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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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Little, Paul

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Luther, Martin

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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Updike, John

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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.