Top 100 God Allows Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
R.C. Sproul
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Nothing can happen to you, unless God allows it to.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Trust in God allows us to live with active expectation, not cynicism.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#9. 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
#10. When you lose something and God allows that to happen, it simply means He wants to give you something much better.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
Douglas Adams
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans.
Max Lucado
#20. If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior
Oswald Chambers
#21. 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
#22. Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.
Joyce Meyer
#23. If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.
James W. Mercer
#24. 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
#25. God allows demonic power over the unfaithful, the untruthful and the cruel, as a path to their self-destruction.
Daniel Marques
#26. God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.
Tony Dungy
#27. God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.
Gloria Gaynor
#28. God allows difficulties to happen so that your strength, faith and power can multiply.
Jeanette Coron
#29. Pride is the rope God allows us all.
Leif Enger
#30. 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
#31. God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.
Donald Miller
#32. 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
#33. Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence
Sunday Adelaja
#34. 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
#35. Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.
Ann Voskamp
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
Julia Ward Howe
#39. People often wonder why God allows hunger, poverty and war in our world. Perhaps God wonders why we allow it.
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#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.
Jurgen Moltmann
#46. Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. Sometimes God allows us to explore the 'whys' of His instructions. Other times He wants us to obey 'because He said so.' Has God asked you to obey in a specific matter that still awaits your obedient response?
Beth Moore
#48. God allows each and everyone to exercise their free will and free choice -- for their own betterment or to their own detriment.
Douglas James Cottrell
#49. Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
Max Lucado
#50. You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.
Francis Of Assisi
#51. The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
Rick Warren
#52. God allows problem to come so that the church can discover and declare Her position
Sunday Adelaja
#53. God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves?
Greg Gordon
#54. Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery"
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#55. I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.
Jonathan Martin
#56. Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.
Beth Moore
#58. God allows difficulties, inconveniences, trials, and even suffering to come our way for a specific purpose: They help develop the right attitude for the growth of patience.
Billy Graham
#59. Undoubtedly, one of the reasons God allows us to fall before temptation so often is to teach us experientially that we really are dependent on Him to enable us to grow in holiness.
Jerry Bridges
#60. I believe God allows special people to enter our lives at the right moment in time to help us on our journey. Some of those special people are in our lives just a moment and others remain forever. No matter how long we are together, the timing is always arranged by divine care.
Melissa G. Moore
#61. We don't always know why God allows trials. We do know He wants us to trust Him.
Jill Eileen Smith
#62. Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?
Dan Miller
#63. God allows us to live in the time of harvest to experience the joy of the harvest
Sunday Adelaja
#64. Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
Criss Jami
#65. In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed ... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.
Jerry Bridges
#66. God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.
Graham Cooke
#67. My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn't override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don't do the things they should.
J.W. Lord
#68. Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.
Billy Graham
#69. When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
Janette Oke
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human.
One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.
Toba Beta
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
Oswald Chambers
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
Honore De Balzac
#94. Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.
Max Anders
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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