God Allows Quotes

#1. Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important ... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

Neale Donald Walsch

#2. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

#3. I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

Billy Graham

#4. Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait and allow the circumstances to compel us to do what we should have done at the beginning: surrender all control to God.

Wayne Stiles

#5. God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Peter Kreeft

#6. It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father - it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all.

Andrew Murray

#7. Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

R.C. Sproul

#8. I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#10. Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

John Piper

#11. Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.

T.D. Jakes

#12. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Paul H. Dunn

#13. Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.

Scott Hahn

#14. Nothing can happen to you, unless God allows it to.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

Matt Dillahunty

#16. Trust in God allows us to live with active expectation, not cynicism.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#17. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!

Norman Whaler

#18. Although God allows the world to use His great wealth in order that their physical and material needs be met, it is not God's will for the devil's children to control all the money that is in the world.

Paul Silway

#19. God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks

#20. When you lose something and God allows that to happen, it simply means He wants to give you something much better.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#22. God never allows pain without a purpose.

Jerry Bridges

#23. All the world talks, knowledge or information, takes you nowhere unless it's applied into life. It's only the experience, which allows you to see, beyond the present state.

Roshan Sharma

#24. One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?

John E. Goldingay

#25. The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and ... one moment after God commands them to stop.

J.C. Ryle

#26. God is lovingly guiding our lives, and we can be confident of His authority over any situation we may face. He never allows anything to happen without a reason.

Teresa Santoski

#27. Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Kelsey Grammer

#28. If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

Douglas Adams

#29. It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

Jorge Luis Borges

#30. Dr. Timothy Shutt, in the context of the Illiad, explains the larger meaning of armor in Greek culture. It is the visible reputation of the warrior -- his gravitas, his wake. This allows another warrior to go out and win victories in the armor of Achilles.

Timothy B. Shutt

#31. Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human.
One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.

Toba Beta

#32. There may be times in my life where a situation looks bleak or doesn't make sense, but having faith in God allows me to know that He will take me through that situation and make me better off than I was before.

Dan Ellis

#33. The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

Carl Jung

#34. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

Molly Friedenfeld

#35. I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Fred Melamed

#36. God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Oswald Chambers

#37. God allows our circumstances to change, so we can learn to love Him in all situations. Our love for God is based on an unchanging Jesus.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#38. Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#39. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Vincent De Paul

#41. By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans.

Max Lucado

#42. will" - he looked up at Blake - "like we talked about before. God does not want puppets. If we choose evil, He allows us.

MaryLu Tyndall

#43. No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Honore De Balzac

#44. If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

Oswald Chambers

#45. Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

Max Anders

#46. God's favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God's goodness to defeat Satan's evil nature.

Sunday Adelaja

#47. We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

Linda Dillow

#48. Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Saint Ignatius

#49. Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it. But, I'm afraid He would ask me the same question.

Brandon Hatmaker

#50. No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you change the word of God? Other religions are living. They are changing and evolving. Islam is fossilized. It allows no change. It can't be reformed.

Ali Sina

#51. The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

Alister E. McGrath

#52. It's pretty amazing that the Lord of heaven and earth, creator of everything, the God of Jacob and Israel, the Messiah, Jesus, allows us to carry him around in our hearts! He is good and full of grace, even when we aren't. He loves us even when we mess it up. He deserves our very best!

Lisa M. Prysock

#53. For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

Greg Rucka

#54. Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.

Joyce Meyer

#55. If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.

James W. Mercer

#56. God allows us glimpses into Heaven through beauty. We see the glimpses in nature, in paintings, we hear it in music, find it in words, but Heaven is shown to us most often, not through beautiful places, but through our love with others." "Like

Scott Thompson

#57. God allows demonic power over the unfaithful, the untruthful and the cruel, as a path to their self-destruction.

Daniel Marques

#58. Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Elizabeth George

#59. Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

Donald L. Hicks

#60. We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

Guillermo Del Toro

#61. Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.

Paulo Coelho

#62. Obedience allows God's blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

Russell M. Nelson

#63. On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Peter Kreeft

#64. God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

Tony Dungy

#65. God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Rick Warren

#66. Prayer gives you opportunity to praise God and to request His divine intervention in your life and/or the lives of others. Prayer allows you to glorify His Name and also provides an avenue for you to be filled with joy.

John C. Broger

#67. Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you

Wayne Dyer

#68. God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

Gloria Gaynor

#69. God's word is like a mirror, it constantly allows us to see whether we're on the right track or not.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#70. It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

John Polkinghorne

#71. God allows difficulties to happen so that your strength, faith and power can multiply.

Jeanette Coron

#72. Pride is the rope God allows us all.

Leif Enger

#73. God allows us, through thoughts, ideas, words and revelations, to imagine things in our
conscious mind that He has already created in the invisible spirit realm.

Sunday Adelaja

#74. God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

Donald Miller

#75. The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparallelled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing.

Arkady Strugatsky

#76. He allows us the luxury of difficult choices so that we can prove our love for Him. These are our opportunities to choose God rather than the world.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#77. Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.

Vincent De Paul

#78. When you are grateful, that allows God to do great things in your life.

Joel Osteen

#79. I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.

Drew Curtis

#80. Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence

Sunday Adelaja

#81. God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.

Susan B. Anthony

#82. Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.

Ann Voskamp

#83. God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C.S. Lewis

#84. What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.

Iyanla Vanzant

#85. Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working.

Louie Giglio

#86. I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Julia Ward Howe

#87. You remember to trust in Heavenly Father. Life is a blessing, but it is also a testing. Take the one as you do the other and trust Him who allows all. Trust what Creator is doing, though we cannot understand it or see the full path.

Lori Benton

#88. It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Cesar Chavez

#89. People often wonder why God allows hunger, poverty and war in our world. Perhaps God wonders why we allow it.
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The Prophet Of Life

#90. The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

Elizabeth George

#91. While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

Charles R. Swindoll

#92. Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

Russell Stannard

#93. Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

Billy Graham

#94. Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'

Victoria Osteen

#95. God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

Greg Laurie

#96. We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

Tullian Tchividjian

#97. God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

Pope Francis

#98. God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

Pope John Paul II

#99. Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.

Mary C. Neal

#100. What I learned was that the more you commit to the process and the more you trust God for increase in every area of your life, the more God allows the scales to tip in your favor until one day the momentum is so tremendous that there is no going back to the life you knew. You

John W. Gray III