Top 100 Give To God Quotes
#1. But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.
Charles L. Allen
#2. To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.
Miroslav Volf
#3. Everything that we give to God, we preserve, and what we keep for ourselves, we lose
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#5. God's ownership of everything also changes the kind of question we ask in giving. Rather than, "How much of my money should I give to God?" we learn to ask, "How much of God's money should I keep for myself?" The difference between these two questions is of monumental proportions.
Richard J. Foster
#6. Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?
John Wesley
#7. Some people are only "believers" because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather than Christian servants, who are always willing to give.
Lisa Bedrick
#8. Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.
Alphonsus Liguori
#9. Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views let both united be;
I live to pleasure when I live to thee.
Philip Doddridge
#10. The first kind is the worship of latreia, which we give to God, who alone is adorable by nature, and this worship is shown in several ways, and first by the worship of servants. All created things worship Him, as servants their master. "All things serve Thee," (Ps. 119.91) the psalm says.
John Of Damascus
#11. Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
Daya Mata
#12. The greatest gift one can give to God is to be pleased with His creation.
Michael A. Singer
#13. Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
David A. Bednar
#14. The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
C.S. Lewis
#15. The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! The best way to pay for a beautiful moment is to enjoy it.
Ronald Rolheiser
#16. The basic question is not how much of our money we should give to God, but how much of God's money we should keep for ourselves.
Jim George
#17. God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Ben Carson
#18. He knows how it is to leave Ireland, did it himself and never got over it. You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day
Frank McCourt
#19. It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
Vincent Van Gogh
#20. Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
Galileo Galilei
#21. The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.
C.S. Lewis
#22. I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is important to me. I will hold my course steady and my God will help me see it through. This is my promise, my anthem and my path. This is my future and I own it.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
#24. If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
Hulagu Khan
#25. God doesn't give us tests that we can't pass, and he must have figured I could handle whatever was going to happen.
Thomas A. Middleton
#26. You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#27. Grace of the Gnani' [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and 'Grace of God' will give you worldly happiness. God will not take you to moksha, because God cannot be realized without a 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], can he? He remains hidden.
Dada Bhagwan
#28. I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
Jorge Luis Borges
#29. I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.
Alistair Begg
#30. Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.
H. Emilie Cady
#31. As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard
#32. It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#33. Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.
Martin Scorsese
#34. How long will you carry this burden - the fame you earned by frivolous alms? Give it to him who owns the whole, the Lord of earth and the skies above.
Preeth Nambiar
#35. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#36. We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
Marianne Williamson
#37. If someone asks me if I believe in God, I shake my head like I couldn't give a shit, but the truth is, I do. I just don't know what to do about it.
Ethan Hawke
#38. We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.
Karen Armstrong
#39. God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).
Joyce Meyer
#40. Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease - that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#41. Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.
Beth Moore
#42. All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.
Tracie Miles
#43. Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#44. The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.
James MacDonald
#45. God knows best. He knows the man to provide what you need for the long run vs. the man, who is just currently trying to give you what you want right now, that is always subject to change.
Stephan Labossiere
#46. I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.
Henri Nouwen
#47. The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
A.B. Simpson
#48. Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.
Sheldon K. Bass
#49. We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
Mother Teresa
#50. Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#51. God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold ...
Mother Teresa
#52. We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.
Laurence Sterne
#53. I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.
Richard Rossi
#54. God gave us words--it's our job to give them wings
Hope Welsh
#55. i asked God to give me a love via synchronicity so when it was my time to allow someone into my heart ~ he entered my world, as if by magic.
Nikki Rowe
#56. I've prayed that I wouldn't become bitter, that I wouldn't remain angry, that I would just give all of it to God and let Him handle it. There have been moments where I felt myself going that way, and I have people around me who will help me ...
Frances Newton
#57. Peter of Jerusalem told his followers that they should be prepared to give an account (logos) of the hope that is in them (I Pt 3: 15). The logos that Peter referred to is, in the final instance, a Person, the eternal Word of God, the ultimate explanation of our life, our movement, and our being.
Francis George
#58. I do not want God to give me what I want; I trust Him to give me what I need. The truth is, He is infinitely wiser than I am. If we always get what we ask for, I for one will cease to pray.
Gary Inrig
#59. The laws of certain states ... give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property ... But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war ... thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.
Alexander Hamilton
#60. One cannot keep on evangelizing the world without interfering with the world's culture. It devolves upon God's people, therefore, to contend for such a society which will give the maximum opportunity for us to live wholly Christian lives and the maximum opportunity for others to become Christians.
Henry R. Van Til
#61. Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
Theodore Dreiser
#62. Never give up on walking right. Something you have to remember is that God's fulfilled promises take patience and faith! Having faith believes in not what you SEE but what you BELIEVE.
Chloe M. Gooden
#63. Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
Christopher Hitchens
#64. The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.
Neal A. Maxwell
#65. Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'
C.S. Lewis
#66. Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.
Rick Steves
#67. You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
Alison Weir
#68. Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.
Gregory Skovoroda
#69. If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.
Gloria Furman
#70. Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.
John Assaraf
#71. I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Anonymous
#72. Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.
Stuart Scott
#73. If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.
If you're in good mood, give thanks to God.
Toba Beta
#75. Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.
Lee Roberson
#76. I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.
Tony Campolo
#77. Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Meister Eckhart
#78. I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary
#80. When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands - even if we don't feel like it - God will reward us with pleasure.
Carolyn Mahaney
#81. How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
Alphonsus Liguori
#82. Showing your true self sometimes don't give you any benefit, but at least you do honest to your self and God.
Olivia Sinaga
#83. Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
Corrie Ten Boom
#84. Let's be simple and calm,
Like brooks and trees,
And God will love us by making
Beautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,
And give us greenness in his spring,
And a river for us to go to when we end...
Alberto Caeiro
#85. You will never become of any significance for God, unless you give all you have to perform some tremendous work for Him.
Sunday Adelaja
#86. The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and ... want to give up or try to work something out on our own.
Jerry Bridges
#87. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#88. God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.
Jim George
#89. You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. And then God sent His Son to give it to you. Psychotherapy-3. III. 8:9-13.
Robert Holden
#91. As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
Karl Barth
#92. JOCASTA:
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself.
Sophocles
#93. God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.
Steve Maraboli
#94. Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#95. Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given.
Deepak Chopra
#96. I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers
#97. Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.
Elizabeth George
#98. By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another's solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give.
Parker J. Palmer
#99. God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin.
Billy Graham
#100. O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God!
Bridget Of Sweden
