Top 100 God Choices Quotes
#1. God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#2. I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice.
Philip Pullman
#3. If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.
Max Lucado
#4. Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?
Geraldine Brooks
#5. God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices
exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.
Jim Butcher
#6. God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.
Rick Warren
#7. Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.
Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
#8. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.
Joyce Meyer
#10. Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#11. God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.
Pope Francis
#12. Oh, that God would have made His will ours! Giving us free will was not free; there were costs to consider and balance. The reward for our choices, for our belief in ourselves and our desire to do the right thing, were great. But along the way we had to take risks. We had to try.
Nancy Moser
#13. God will make the way clear when the choices you make are in accordance with His will and His purpose, when you listen to His desires for your life." Slipping
Hallee Bridgeman
#14. Aside God, you have just one boss! That is you. You choose to be a good boss or a bad boss with the business of your life! That is you!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.
Rob Payne
#18. The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny.
Eugenie Laverne Mitchell
#19. The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.
Israel Shenker
#20. And what about someone like Jack the Ripper? Does God love him too?" Archer stopped and held my gaze. "A man chooses what he becomes, and he must accept responsibility for his choices." "You didn't answer my question." "I don't know how to.
April White
#21. There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
Neal A. Maxwell
#22. To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the grace of God alone. And it shouldn't come without a price.
Amor Towles
#23. I am Apollo," I announced. "You mortals have three choices: offer me tribute, flee, or be destroyed."
I wanted my words to echo through the alley, shake the towers of New York, and cause the skies to rain smoking ruin. None of that happened. On the word destroyed, my voice squeaked.
Rick Riordan
#24. We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, to prove us and to improve us.
Alistair Begg
#25. A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
Bob Dylan
#27. I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.
Common
#28. The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.
Dan Gilroy
#29. What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even more free. This means that our freedom can never limit God's sovereignty.
R.C. Sproul
#30. In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
Donna Rice
#31. In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.
Bernice King
#32. 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
#33. Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.
Milton Jones
#34. God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated.
Nthabiseng Motjamela
#35. God cannot force you to accept Jesus Christ because God cannot force you to reject hell. Your choices are very limited; hell or paradise. Salvation is a choice. John 3:16
Felix Wantang
#36. Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat.
Stormie O'martian
#37. There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I've chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.
Kim Harrison
#38. Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour
Sri Chinmoy
#39. If you are convinced about your choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of God!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#41. This is your time. Make it count by dedicating your time to your Heavenly Father.
Kristen Oaks
#42. Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.
Victoria Osteen
#43. But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Isaiah 64 8
#44. Remember that God has given you today and that the choices you make today will shape your tomorrow - not your yesterday.
John Bevere
#45. You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.
Joel Osteen
#48. God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#49. To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.
Peter Santos
#50. Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.
Elizabeth Bowen
#51. According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.
Kay Arthur
#52. You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.
Billy Graham
#53. Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
C.S. Lewis
#55. God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.
Elizabeth George
#56. True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives - that is, our time and choices - to God's purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.
D. Todd Christofferson
#57. Choices will continually be necessary and
let us not forget
possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
Elisabeth Elliot
#58. I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums
Vinnie Paz
#59. The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.
Evelyn Underhill
#60. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#61. So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.
Peter Kreeft
#62. Scripture sees hell as self-chosen ... Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.
J.I. Packer
#63. Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.
Jim George
#64. The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
Max Lucado
#65. God designed us so that our choices, our thoughts and desires, and our behavior would be in perfect harmony with each other and would be powered by an unbroken connection with God, in perfect harmony with him and with all of his creation. That is a well-ordered soul.
John Ortberg
#66. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Billy Graham
#67. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.
L. Tom Perry
#69. AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#70. Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#71. This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts
would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.
Harold S. Kushner
#72. Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.
Bill Bright
#73. You will find God in the church of your choice.
Bob Dylan
#74. God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
William Matthews
#75. Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.
Brenda Waggoner
#76. A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.
Billy Graham
#77. God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#78. Some might call it manipulation, but I like to consider it simply using what God gave me. And the word manipulation is so ugly. It's what people say to disavow their own choices. If they end up never regretting their decision, does that mean that no one has manipulated them?
M.E. Thomas
#79. You aren't alone. Unworthy. Powerless. You are important in God's eyes. You aren't defined by what has happened to you, or even your own wrong choices; these things will not destroy you. You are loved. Needed. And what you have to say is valuable.
Jo Ann Fore
#80. Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice ... All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.
Roy Hession
#81. When a choice will make a real difference in our lives - obvious or not - and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.
Dallin H. Oaks
#82. A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.
Jeremiah Wright
#83. And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.
Francis Schaeffer
#84. If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
Roma Downey
#85. I don't look to my situation to determine what choices I make. I've developed a good sense of values and beliefs. That's my reality. No matter where I am, God is still good. No matter where I am, nothing is impossible. It's those sort of principles that really anchor me.
Kelly Clark
#86. We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.
George W. Bush
#87. Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.
Holly Sprink
#88. You can choose to be willing for a new understand of God and Life to now be brought forth, and understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planer.
Neale Donald Walsch
#89. You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.
Billy Graham
#90. I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.
Lysa TerKeurst
#91. You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.
Bob Dylan
#92. 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
#93. God is always willing to give you the best life possible. If you change your mind at any time you are free to go back to enjoying hell.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.
Billy Graham
#95. The nature of your outcome or problem in large part depends upon you. Results are what you get when you follow the rules. Consequences are the results of negative choices. Your thoughts become your actions. Your thoughts should be focused on what you desire.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#96. Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.
Richard G. Scott
#97. I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.
Maribel C. Pagan
#98. As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Stockwell Day
#99. Choose God's way of and choose the things that God chooses. His choices are the best
Sunday Adelaja
#100. It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God ...
Toyohiko Kagawa
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