Motivational Quotes

God

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19]

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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

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Churchill, Winston

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

Robert J. Sawyer

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

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

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

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

Tillich, Paul

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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

J. G. Holland

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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.

11.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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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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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

15.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Law, William

16.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

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

Sara B. Cooper

18.

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen

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God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Herbert, George

24.

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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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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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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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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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

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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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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Shakti Gawain

39.

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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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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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Haweis, H. R.

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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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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.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Bible

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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Paul, Jean

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet