I was watching some motivational videos and stumbled across a video where Oprah Winfrey interviews several people and asks them what their definition of God is.
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer said, “God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It’s our divine self.”
Wayne Dyer was an author and a motivational speaker.
A few quotes from Wayne Dyer
How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Michael Singer
Michael Singer said, “God is the source of you.”
Michael Singer is a best-selling author, a meditation centre founder and a former software programmer.
A few quotes from Michael Singer
Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.
The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.
Debbie Ford
Debbie Ford said, “I define God as an energy i.e. a spiritual energy. It has no denomination, it has no judgements, it is an energy that we’re more connected to it we know why we’re here and what we’re here to do and to know that I am one with something greater i.e. an energy or force greater than myself.”
Debbie Ford is an expert in human potential and personal transformation. She is an author.
A few quotes from Debbie Ford
Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.
Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. You will no longer have to pretend to be someone you’re not. You will no longer have to prove you’re good enough. When you embrace your shadow you will no longer have to life in fear. Find the gifts of your shadow and you will finally revel in all the glory of your true self. Then you will have the freedom to create the life you have always desired.
Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?
Devon Franklin
Devon Franklin said, “God is not only the Alpha or the Omega but he’s a friend, he’s a confidant, he’s a buddy, he is the love of my soul.”
Devon Franklin is a Hollywood producer and an author.
A few quotes from Devon Franklin
Home is about the person more than the place. Our marriage is our home, and it fills us back up when the world drains us.
Unconditional love means accepting someone for who they are now, not who you hope they will be one day. People
The distance between you and success isn’t necessarily a yard—it’s an inch. But to get that final inch is excruciating. You have to stay committed.
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson said, “God is an all encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all and the being through which I am.”
Marianne Williamson is an author, activist and lecturer.
A few quotes from Marianne Williamson
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee said, “He is my beloved, he is my most intimate beloved, my friend, the one I look to in everything. I wouldn’t try to define him. No one knows God but God. He is even beyond even the idea of the beyond.”
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher, a lecturer and an author.
A few quotes from Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.
love has no end, because the Beloved has no end.
We have separated matter and spirit and through the power of this collective attitude have starved the world.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle said, “God is beyond all the forms of life but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.”
Eckart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and an author.
A few quotes from Eckhart Tolle
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein said, “God is the ever present essence of love.”
Gabrielle Bernstein is a life coach, motivational speaker and author.
A few quotes from Gabrielle Bernstein
Worry is a prayer to chaos
When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love.
Mastin Kipp
Mastin Kipp said, “God is love.”
Mastin Kipp is an author, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker.
A few quotes from Mastin Kipp
What you put up with you end up with.
Success is what happens to you when and if you survive all your mistakes.
Be willing to live a few years how most people won’t, so that you can live the rest of your life how most people can’t.
Marie Forleo
Marie Forleo said, “God is everything in the creative force.”
Marie Forleo is a web television host, author, motivational speaker and life coach.
A few quotes from Marie Forleo
The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. –Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)
Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.
Don’t wait until you find someone. You are someone.
Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss said, “God is law. God to me is the mystical law because God to me is the nature of the universe. It is the order of things. The negotiating principle with mystical laws is prayer. Miracle is when God bends these laws for you.”
Caroline Myss is an author
A few quotes from Caroline Myss
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.
Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant said, “God is everything. Breath, life, get a dictionary, throw it on the floor. It is everything. God is everything not only in but he is everything.”
Iyanla Vanzant is a lawyer, author and inspirational speaker.
A few quotes from Iyanla Vanzant
The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want.
Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t..
Gary Zukav
Gary Zukav said, “If God was the word I was going to use then I would say This universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours.”
Gary Zukav is a spiritual teacher and an author
A few quotes from Gary Zukav
Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.
An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.
Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life – judgment, limitation, and stinginess
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra said, “God is evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.”
Deepak Chopra is a medicine advocate, author, public speaker and an important figure in New Age Movement.
A few quotes from Deepak Chopra
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Brené Brown
Brené Brown said, “God is the divine reminder of our inherit worthiness.”
Brené Brown is an author and research professor at the University of Houston
A few quotes from Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou said, “God is all. There is no place that God is not.”
Maya Angelou was an author, civil rights activist, memoirist, singer and poet and much more…
A few quotes from Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield said, “God is, first thing I think we can’t conceive of it. God is too big of a concept. It’s whatever was before whatever will be long after everything is gone. The supreme consciousness and force of love in the universe.
Steve Pressfield is an author.
A few quotes from Steven Pressfield
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
India Arie
India Arie said, “God it the totality of all that is including me, including you.”
India Arie is a singer and songwriter.
Quotes from India Arie
What did not demolish me simply polished me.
I’m not the average girl from your video and I ain’t built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen
Your real job in this world is to be you.
Dr. Brian Weiss
Dr. Brian Weiss said, “God is indescribable. We don’t have words and concepts but it’s in part understanding the energy that connects all of us together. It’s a clue into the nature of god.”
Dr. Brian Weiss is a psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specializes in past life regression.
Quotes from Dr. Brian Weiss
The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything…doing unselfishly.
To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.
A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity.
Robin Smith
Robin Smith said, “God is love and peace and freedom.”
Robin Smith is an author, speaker, minister, psychologist and artist.
Quotes from Robin Smith
Change is just a bend in the road, not the end of the road
When death finds you, may it find you alive.
Feed the truth. Starve the lie.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Don Miguel Ruiz said, “God is love, joy, birth, you and me and everybody else.”
Don Miguel Ruiz is an author.
Quotes from Don Miguel Ruiz
Don’t take anything personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
Tina Turner
Tina Turner said, “God is of love, compassion, forgiveness, appreciation. That is what we are born with and what we should live by. God is not in the image of a person for me. God is a way of life.”
Tina Turner is a singer, songwriter and actress.
Quotes from Tina Turner
You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.
My legacy is that I stayed on course…from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
You take everything I’ve made the last 16 years. I’ll take my freedom.
My mother said, “God is blessings.”
My father said, “God is inside us but everyone goes outside looking for him.”
I say, “God is everything and anything, anything and everything.”
T. Dench Patel
Oh! And by the way here’s the video of Oprah’s interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRo9ABvef4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x3CEfGK6Dc
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