Choosing God Quotes

#1. From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

C.S. Lewis

#2. One final reason for choosing God's path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.

Billy Graham

#3. By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.

Mary C. Neal

#4. You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Broken Places

"It is by willfully choosing to trust in the strength God offers, to heal our broken places, that we find encouragement and a deeper relationship with our Father.

Cheryl Zelenka

#6. Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

Richard Rohr

#7. God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. In choosing candidates for this challenging way of life, she emphasised intelligence and good judgment ("GOD PRESERVE US FROM STUPID NUNS !! )

. It was her conviction that intelligent people can better be aware of their faults and, at the same time, see the need to be guided.

St Teresa Of Avila

#9. Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

Edward John Carnell

#10. Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Spirituality is not something that comes through one encounter with God. It is the result of choosing the way of self denial and doing God's will consistently day after day, week after week and year after year.

Zac Poonen

#13. Personally, I'm choosing to dwell upon the glory of the kingdom of which I am a part, even though I'm still a witness and sometimes a victim of the junk in 'this' world.

Van Harden

#14. Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in a god only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all.

Rachel Higginson

#15. Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

Gary Hopkins

#16. fear can never be an excuse when it comes to choosing whether or not we will be obedient to God.

Kveta Rose

#17. Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God's Word and in His love for you.

Joseph Prince

#18. Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

Stephen Arterburn

#19. Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

Francois Mitterrand

#20. God moves mountains to create the opportunity of His choosing. It is up to you to be ready to move yourself.

Andy Andrews

#21. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.

Joseph Campbell

#22. What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect perfection. Choosing the right road will help lead us to heaven.

Phil Mitchell

#23. For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose-is choosing-its own destiny this instant.

Neale Donald Walsch

#24. For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears.

Michael Ben Zehabe

#25. What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

John Piper

#26. God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

Vincent De Paul

#27. Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Thomas Watson

#28. Eugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#29. When people pray, they're choosing to believe there's a good, loving God reaching out to us, listening to our prayers, and meeting with us.

Ed Cyzewski

#30. When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life.

Stormie O'martian

#31. The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?

Stephen King

#32. It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

Rich Nathan

#33. When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.

Henry T. Blackaby

#34. You must not lose faith, child. No matter what. Do not doubt God or his choosing of you. He knows infinitely more than we can imagine.

Rae Carson

#35. Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

Rick Warren

#36. The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

Lou Holtz

#37. I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

Doreen Virtue

#38. There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

Lettie Cowman

#39. First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

David Jeremiah

#40. When we first come to faith in Christ, we often think it was simply of our own choosing. Only later do we realize we would have never taken that step of faith apart from His grace drawing us near to Him.

Dillon Burroughs

#41. The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good
not just once, but again and again until it is goodness that prevails in your life and in our world altogether.

John Morton

#42. Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.

Billy Graham

#43. More than any other faith challenge I face, believing that I am who God says I am necessitates choosing what God says over what I feel.

Beth Moore

#44. Every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terri Blackstock

#45. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#46. Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

Javier Bardem

#47. Happiness Is Dependent Upon Choosing To Function Within The Laws And Principles Of Kingdom Of God

Sunday Adelaja

#48. Then again, Piper couldn't imagine choosing one demi god's life over another,

Rick Riordan

#49. God has not chosen hell for anyone. Anyone who goes to hell will go there because he or she has chosen sin; and hell is the just repercussion of choosing sin.

Wes McAdams

#50. Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#51. A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

Ravi Zacharias

#52. It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

John Calvin

#53. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.

Mark Sayers

#54. Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God ...

Toyohiko Kagawa

#56. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Luci Shaw

#57. Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

Ellen G. White

#58. Nothing is more ignorant than choosing man's intelligence over God's.

Beth Moore

#59. Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.

Thomas C. Oden

#60. Choose God, his word, prayer, and spiritual vitamins. As you fight the battle with these tools, you will also be simultaneously choosing your victory.

Tracie Miles

#61. Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

Stephanie Rische

#62. He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.

Ian McDonald

#63. As we seek God, it's best not to focus on asking about the future. It's not about picking and choosing which pieces of information we think God should give us. Rather, we listen for what He wants to tell us, and then gratefully accept whatever that happens to be.

Susan Rohrer

#64. Let's assume for a moment that you, Oh, do not choose God. Does this prevent Him from choosing you? I conclude, from these many verses, that it does not. Either He saves everyone or He saves no one.

Patrick Carman