Motivational Quotes

God

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

Best Quotes about God

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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

Michael J. Fox

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

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

Luther, Martin

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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

11.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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

Saadi

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Little, Paul

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

Stowell, Joseph

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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

24.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Homer

26.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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

Sir Julian Huxley

30.

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

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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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

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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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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

35.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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Forsake not God till you find a better master.

Proverb, Scottish

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

38.

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Aughey, John H.

42.

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

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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is no God but God.

Koran, The

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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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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

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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