Top 49 Encouraging God Quotes
#1. The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
Brennan Manning
#2. Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.
Stormie O'martian
#3. In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
George S. Patton
#4. I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your mind. It is a leap toward thinking God's thoughts after Him.
James W. Sire
#5. Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!
Charles Spurgeon
#6. Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.
Krista Tippett
#7. People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not - it's everlasting.
Stormie O'martian
#8. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.
David Platt
#9. Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#11. Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face.
Rick Warren
#12. Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!
Stormie O'martian
#13. God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can't see it.
Stormie O'martian
#14. Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.
Robert Breault
#15. Strengthening the hearts of the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith, and by telling them, "It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God."
Acts 14:22
Anonymous
#16. If you take a look around this great big world, every beautiful thing that you see God created.
Heather Wolf
#17. I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
Karen Abbott
#18. That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.'
'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.'
'I like you, too.'
'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.
Veronica Roth
#20. Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
Stormie O'martian
#21. If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?
Stormie O'martian
#22. You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.
Charles R. Swindoll
#23. When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.
Stormie O'martian
#24. Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.
Stormie O'martian
#25. God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
David Platt
#27. It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
Stormie O'martian
#28. Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.
Joyce Meyer
#29. God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile
Max Lucado
#30. I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
Joel Osteen
#31. We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone - Trust God to take care of them.
Stormie O'martian
#32. Still, shifting my thinking on the Bible did not mean I was losing my faith in God. In fact, I had the growing sense that God was inviting me down this path, encouraging it even.
Peter Enns
#33. We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
Rick Warren
#34. Don't think too small about what God could do in your life - be prepared for God to do a big thing.
Stormie O'martian
#35. We, as mothers, will have children of all ages, at all stages of their religious journey. Some have been saved, some are struggling in sin, some are confused, and some are under the chastening hand of God. We need to be there, praying, smiling, encouraging and seeing them through these rough years.
Sharon White
#36. God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.
Charles Spurgeon
#37. Keep encouraging yourself that you are good enough as a workman of God created for every good work one earth prepared for you before the world begun.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
Ken Hensley
#39. How encouraging to remember that the Spirit of God is more powerful than the spirit of wickedness! As 1 John 4:4 reminds us, "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
Beth Moore
#40. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
Stormie O'martian
#41. In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.
Stormie O'martian
#42. looking for fights - encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it - is pathological.
Peter Enns
#43. Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.
Joyce Meyer
#44. God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.
Joyce Meyer
#45. The phrase "timing is everything" is never more true than in your walk with God - HIS timing is everything.
Stormie O'martian
#46. There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
F.B. Meyer
#47. Ty's hands gripped Zane's waist, and he called out, encouraging his lover for more. He fell back again, hands sliding to Zane's hips. He loved to feel the supple movements of Zane's hips when they were fucking. Zane had never ridden him before, but they would definitely be doing this again. "God,
Abigail Roux
#48. When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
John Milton
#49. Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
Randy Alcorn