Top 99 God Centered Quotes
#1. We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#3. God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.
John Piper
#4. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Josh McDowell
#5. The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.
Leslie Ludy
#6. A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology
John Piper
#7. Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
John Piper
#8. Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
Robert H. Schuller
#9. All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.
Samuel E. Waldron
#10. But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
John Piper
#11. I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
D. A. Carson
#13. Regenerate people feel through their minds and think through thier feelings. They are self-aware in a God-concious and God-centered way that is beyond the understanding of those who do not not actually share this life quality .
J.I. Packer
#14. Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.
David L. Schindler
#15. If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.
Billy Graham
#16. So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.
Jerry Bridges
#17. For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Leland Ryken
#18. The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.
John Stott
#19. God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated churches where the gospel is cherished - these are the birthplace of the kind of racial harmony that gives long-term glory to God and long-term gospel good to the world.
Bryan Loritts
#20. Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
Leland Ryken
#21. The story of the Bible is not the story of the covenant of grace; nor is it the story of Israel. The Bible is the story of God's work in history to sum up all things in Christ. New Covenant Theology strives to keep this one plan of God - centered in Jesus Christ - primary.
A. Blake White
#22. Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.
James MacDonald
#24. a God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God's truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.
Keith A. Mathison
#25. Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.
Colin S. Smith
#26. We humans are the culmination of God's efforts. The Torah is man centered under God centered. It's like TWIN pillars, TWIN centers. It's NOT JUST God centered.
Dennis Prager
#27. Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
Craig Groeschel
#29. A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.
Charles R. Swindoll
#30. The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
R.J. Rushdoony
#31. Legalism is man-centered; discipline is God-centered.
Barbara Hughes
#32. We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
#33. The atmosphere of my faith brightens with every Christ-centered book I read.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#34. The unity of divine revelation, of the various dispensations, is found in the goal of history, the kingdom of God. And since this kingdom is centered in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the dispensational unity of Scripture and of history is Christological as much as it is eschatological.
Craig A. Blaising
#35. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.
Billy Graham
#36. God's church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.
Billy Graham
#37. A mind centered on the truth of God is the key to being sustained and not losing heart.
David Jeremiah
#38. you cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot coexist in the same heart
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#39. A soul centered in God always knows it has a heavenly Father who will hold its pain, its fear, its anxiety.
John Ortberg
#40. Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel's chest like an ache.
He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.
Lisa Kleypas
#41. By faith we understand the word and work of God - The faith of the ancients was centered in Christ - By faith, men subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, and worked miracles.
Anonymous
#43. Dear God, help us to be a living example of being Christ-centered. Purify the areas in our lives where we allowed the world and enemy to gain access. Please direct us into authentic truth so that all may see You in us.
Dana Arcuri
#44. This vision of life is deeply centered in God, the sacred. So it was for Jesus. So it is in all of the enduring religions of the world. What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus.
Marcus J. Borg
#45. I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.
Cate Tiernan
#46. People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.
Billy Graham
#47. My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen - especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit ... glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#48. Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God
Stormie O'martian
#49. Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some type of limited frame in which he lives, shutting himself up in that frame and not looking beyond it.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#50. The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
#51. Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.
Carol P. Christ
#52. It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
Paul Of The Cross
#55. Man, just believe in yourself, be able to dream, and know that there's going to be valleys and peaks. Always stay centered, and know that God is the key, the beginning and end of everything you do.
Common
#56. Christianity is word-centered because God rules through his gospel word.
Tim Chester
#57. Fans mistake knowledge OF Jesus for intimacy WITH Jesus.
Kyle Idleman
#58. The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.
Pope Benedict XVI
#59. Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.
Mark Driscoll
#60. The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him ...
David Lloyd-Jones
#61. Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.
Basilea Schlink
#62. It's very important to get your desires centered so you will desire only to do God's will for you. You can come to the point of oneness of desire, just to know and do your part in the Life Pattern. When you think about it, is there anything else as really important to desire?
Peace Pilgrim
#63. Do you have an anchor? I have found that a solid anchor is indispensable to one who intends to live life fully. To have an anchor is to be centered and well grounded. It is to have a vital spiritual base.
Steve Goodier
#64. It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening.
Jerry Falwell
#65. Rather than being purpose-driven, I prefer to be presence-centered. All our efforts in God's Kingdom must originate from the place of rest, the place of His presence.
Heidi Baker
#66. When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.
Neva Coyle
#67. Historians will probably call our era "the age of anxiety." Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.
Billy Graham
#68. Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
Rick Warren
#69. I don't believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches - whatever specific forms our gatherings take - to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.
Francis Chan
#70. God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.
C. John Miller
#71. God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.
Tullian Tchividjian
#72. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.
David Platt
#73. Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw.
N. T. Wright
#74. We are, by nature, receivers. Even if we have a desire to learn God's Word, we still listen from a default self-centered mind-set that is always asking, What can I get out of this?
David Platt
#75. Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.
Billy Graham
#76. Our lives should not be self-centered and static; rather, they should be others-centered and active, making a difference for the kingdom of God.
Wendy Blight
#77. To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.
Marianne Williamson
#78. The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.
Alfred Noyes
#79. Love isn't self-centered, even at the supreme scale.
John K. Brown
#80. Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#81. If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.
Ryan Montgomery
#82. The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
Jen Pollock Michel
#83. I am most thankful for what I don't have, for had my life's wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God's treasures.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.
Catherine McAuley
#85. In the early nineteenth century, a new culture - a new idea about what to hope for - emerged for many Americans, centered around the independent self, under nation and God.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#86. My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.
Gordon Dalbey
#87. Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
Goswami Kriyananda
#88. We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.
John Piper
#89. At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. A woman's mission centered on home and family - vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.
Carolyn Custis James
#91. Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.
Richard G. Scott
#92. I don't want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I'm not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.
Wayne Watson
#93. Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
Rajneesh
#94. For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace.
Donald Hankey
#95. [M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#97. People who've been hit with the gospel respond naturally with radically changed lives and hearts. The church and the ministries of the church are gospel centered when they flow from hearts that are afire with wonder at the glory and grace of God, revealed in the person of Jesus.
Daniel Montgomery
#98. The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#99. Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.
Shunryu Suzuki
