Top 100 God Character Quotes
#1. God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.
Rick Warren
#2. The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.
Lisa Bevere
#4. Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.
Mark W. Boyer
#5. We need to be strong on the inside and have God's character and qualities
Sunday Adelaja
#6. She found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe and everything. Ove got angry instead. Maybe because he felt someone had to be angry on her behalf, when everything that was evil seemed to assail the only person he'd ever met who didn't deserve it.
Fredrik Backman
#7. Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
Elizabeth George
#8. What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
Mark Twain
#9. God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.
Frank E. Peretti
#10. Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon their own character.
Henry Drummond
#11. Some days the burdens may seem so heavy and the weariness so profound that you may wonder if God has forsaken you. Why would He allow you to experience such deep adversity? Yet do not despair. He has a clear purpose for your suffering: so you will know the Savior better and reflect His character.
Charles F. Stanley
#12. It is right that we long to be in the fellowship of God's people in which God's character is manifested, for when we delight in the godliness of God's people, we are ultimately delighting in God himself as we see his character evidenced in the lives of his people.
Wayne A. Grudem
#13. Joy is God's basic character. Joy is his eternal destiny. God is the happiest being in the universe.
John Ortberg Jr.
#14. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Anonymous
#15. The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#16. We will be judged according to the secret motives and the character of our work. If we have done our work for selfish motives or personal gain, even if the results looked noble to our friends and family, God knows our hearts.
Billy Graham
#17. The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.
John Piper
#18. The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
N. T. Wright
#19. Have confidence in God's character, love, and power.
Katy Kauffman
#20. The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God.
Words to live by.
Jinat Rehana Begum
#21. God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.
Derek Prince
#22. The church growth movement has made many lasting contributions to our practice of ministry. But its overemphasis on technique and results can put too much pressure on ministers because it underemphasizes the importance of godly character and the sovereignty of God.
Timothy Keller
#23. God answers faith-filled complaints with grace, with character development, with power to persevere, and with a long-term plan that makes all things turn out right in the end.
Greg Pruett
#24. How you react doesn't tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?
Shannon L. Alder
#25. Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.
Ravi Zacharias
#26. I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
Drew Barrymore
#27. We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
Luke Scott
#28. The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
Oswald Chambers
#29. O God as Thou hast made my form beautiful so make my character beautiful.
Anonymous
#30. Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#31. Little choices determine habit;
Habit carves and molds character
Which makes the big decisions.
Elizabeth George
#32. Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving - God's self-giving and human self-giving - and not about self-imposing.
Philip Yancey
#33. You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.
Timothy Ferriss
#34. God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
Rick Warren
#35. From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
Francis Chan
#36. God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
Rick Warren
#37. God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.
Kristiane Backer
#38. It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."
Nick Swardson
#39. Fame is also a test of character at times ... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons!
Meg Ryan
#40. I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.
Donald Miller
#41. People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
Rick Warren
#42. Just not a big fan of dogmatic rituals or gatherings. Like I put faith in god, I give a truckload of significance to karma, character and compassion.
Varsha Dixit
#43. This is a book that looks at how we can use the challenges, joys, struggles, and celebrations of marriage to draw closer to God and to grow in Christian character.
Gary L. Thomas
#44. [Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.
Eusebius
#45. The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
A.B. Simpson
#46. Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.
Joel Osteen
#47. Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.
Rick Warren
#48. The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
J.I. Packer
#49. When you have a grasp on eternity your eyes won't ever see the battle or the lost people that hurt you. You will see a beautiful story of hope, in every character. It is not one person god loves. He loves us all and this is his story, our story and theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
Anne Lamott
#51. God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
John Ortberg
#52. If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.
Eric Liddell
#53. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
#54. They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
John Amos
#55. God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Walter Kirn
#56. Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#57. Reputation is what others think you are; character is what God knows you are.
Anonymous
#58. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.
John Paul Jackson
#59. Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.
Jim George
#60. If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
Watchman Nee
#61. In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.
Rick Warren
#63. The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#64. Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.
Max Lucado
#65. The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
Florence Nightingale
#66. Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God's standards.
Jim George
#67. Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
William Torrey Harris
#68. When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.
Natalie Grant
#69. God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
Gordon Fee
#70. [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#71. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#72. We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Ellen G. White
#74. In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.
Joel Beeke
#75. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.
Nia Long
#76. The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#77. Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our
character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world.
Donald Miller
#78. What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?
Priscilla Shirer
#79. It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.
Howard G. Hendricks
#80. It would be against God's character to give us a promise that our children will be saved if we raise them in a certain way. That would mean that he was telling us to trust in something other than Christ and his grace and mercy.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#81. When we trust, we reflect the character of God.
Bill Donahue
#82. Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
#83. The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
Ellen G. White
#84. God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
J.G. Holland
#85. Circumstances cannot change the character of God.
Rick Warren
#86. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
Alice Cooper
#87. No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#88. By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#89. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
George W. Bush
#90. Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?
Charles Kingsley
#91. Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.
Josh McDowell
#92. How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits.
Albert Camus
#93. Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.
Elizabeth George
#95. There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja?
Sarah Price
#96. Bullshitting god would be Max's plan in a nutshell. Miles could even guess his father's opening gambit. He'd point out to God that if He expected better results, He ought to have given Max better character to work with, instead of sending him into battle so poorly equipped.
Richard Russo
#97. When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
Criss Jami
#98. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"
Zephyr Teachout
#99. When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'
Antonia Thomas
#100. I am confident in my FAITH because I know the character of God and am assured by the love and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
Karen Gibbs
