Motivational Quotes

God

God is clever, but not dishonest.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about God

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

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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

Williams, Ted

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Lawrence, D. H.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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 can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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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 gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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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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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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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 God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gulbranson, Gary

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks

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

Hugh Elliott

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

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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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God hath entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Seneca

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

J. G. Holland

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

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You have to believe in gods to see them.

saying, Hopi Indian

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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Norwich, Julian of

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

Eckhart, Meister

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

Irv Kupcinet

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee