Top 100 God Gave Quotes
#1. God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
#2. 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
#3. God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.
Billy Graham
#4. He doesn't have the sense God gave a billy goat.
Anonymous
#5. The life mission God gave you was only appointed to you. If you are faithful, God will send someone into your life to support it. If your are blessed, he will send someone who shares your passion. If you are chosen, he will unlock every door that stands in your way.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.
Lou Holtz
#7. Man gave us laws, and God gave us time,
It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
ASAP Rocky
#8. I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles.
Mary Connealy
#9. I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.
Patricia Mauceri
#10. God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
Emily Dickinson
#11. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.
Paul Harding
#12. I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.
DMX
#13. God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. It's one slice of shit-cake after another with me, isn't it? Why did you marry me?"
"God gave you to me."
"Did you keep the receipt?"
- Amber and Meoraq
R. Lee Smith
#15. God gave us the access, but we need to exercise courage to have it. No one lacks the access, but it's only few that have the courage to grab it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible.
Scot McKnight
#17. I love my body. It's what God gave me.
Kate Upton
#18. God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't ... that should tell us something.
Eugene O'Neill
#19. God gave you the knowledge and ability for you to advance His Kingdom through your work
Sunday Adelaja
#20. God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.
Dewitt Jones
#21. God gave us a variety of ways to get hurt out and do it clean. Blood cleans a wound. Tears clean a different kind of wound. You might not like it, Frannie, but you shouldn't stop yourself from doing it. Clean the wound so it can heal. Then move on.
Kristen Ashley
#22. Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it's lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness - it's still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.
Dean Koontz
#23. God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?
Ninette De Valois
#24. God gave us music, so we play with our words.
Talib Kweli
#25. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
Robin Williams
#26. What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
John Green
#29. I don't sleep with that many chicks, and if I did, so what? There's nuthin' wrong with sex. It's you religious types who have a problem with it, slut-shaming people who enjoy what your so-called God gave them.
Marita A. Hansen
#30. Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Roger Ebert
#31. And to the rest of the world
God gave you shoes to fit you
So put 'em on and wear 'em
Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny
Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful
Eminem
#32. To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Nancy Reagan
#33. I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that's what God gave me, and I'm proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.
Ronda Rousey
#34. God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.
LeCrae
#35. I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.
Josh Turner
#36. God gave mankind a divine duty to protect all the animals in the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston
#38. God gave each of us a soul, which is a candle that He gives us to illuminate our surroundings with His light," the Rebbe taught at a 1990 worldwide Chanukah satellite linkup. "We must not only illuminate the inside of homes, but also the outside, and the world at large.
Joseph Telushkin
#39. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.
Tracy Morgan
#40. Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"
John Ross Macduff
#41. I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now "God gave it to me!" Don't you think you are too stupid?
M.F. Moonzajer
#42. Love the people God gave you because He will need them back one day.
Becky Kinder
#43. To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.
Grete Waitz
#44. God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you
William Arthur Ward
#45. I felt better mounted. God gave us horses so we could run away faster.
Mark Lawrence
#46. I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.
Fanny Fern
#47. God gave the Bible not so we can know it but so we can know and love God through it.
Scot McKnight
#48. God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#49. And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.
John Calvin
#50. I believe you've got to utilize what god gave you, so if you have facial hair, there are ways to look good while sporting it.
Jose Bautista
#51. Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.
Christine Caine
#52. We may assume God gave us music just to make us happy, not holy; he actually gave us music to make us happy and holy.
C.J. Mahaney
#53. You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
Craig Groeschel
#54. God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#55. God gave women 2 sets of lips, that way she can piss and moan at the same time.
Melody Parks
#56. Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
Tupac Shakur
#57. God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Thomas Carlyle
#58. Of all the gifts God gave me, he thought, the greatest one is you.
Sylvain Reynard
#59. God gave us emotions. Emotions allow us to feel as we experience life. Because we feel, we connect.
Lysa TerKeurst
#60. The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
C.S. Lewis
#61. God gave us the church to arm us with help and strength
Sunday Adelaja
#62. if God gave you the ability to dream, he also gave you the ability to achieve that very same dream.
Sean Terry
#63. His was the holiest face I ever saw. My very name turned holy on his tongue. If he had bade me rise and follow to the end of time, I would have gone. If he had bade me die for him, I would have died. When I deserved it least, God gave me most. I think it was the savior's face I saw.
Frederick Buechner
#64. Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#65. I have consummated the work to which I pledged myself, using all the abilities that You (God) gave me; I have shown the glory of Your works to men, but if I have pursued my own glory among men while engaged in a work intended for Your glory, be merciful, be compassionate, and forgive.
Johannes Kepler
#66. Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out of your mama's tattered old pussy, grabbed hold of her milk stained titties, and you ain't never looked back, motherfucker.
David Sedaris
#67. God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.
Jean Chretien
#68. God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#69. If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.
Jason Gray
#71. God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.
Jeff Miller
#72. The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.
Fatema Mernissi
#73. God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#74. I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.
Pele
#75. The highest calling you can find is the one God gave you.
Josh Kelley
#76. Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?
Trai Byers
#77. It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
Joyce Meyer
#79. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur
#80. God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
Ovid
#82. I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'
Brandon Flowers
#83. If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.
Jimmy Evans
#84. Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.
Mordecai Richler
#85. Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
Adlai Stevenson I
#86. The result is that God gave to the woman a corresponding power or authority as that possessed by the man. Therefore, the woman was not man's "helpmate," but a full power or authority corresponding to Adam.
Gary T. Meadors
#87. How sad it would be to get to the end of life and realize God gave you wings, but you never used them.
Khrys Vaughan
#88. If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
Adoniram Judson
#89. I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.
Ann B. Davis
#90. I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.
Pope Francis
#91. I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.
Jeff Henderson
#92. If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.
N.L.B. Horton
#93. Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#94. The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.
Rick Warren
#95. God gave us the Trees, the Breeze and the Seas. Let's not forget to pay our fees!-RVM
R.v.m.
#96. Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
Aretha Franklin
#98. Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind.
Norman Maclean
#99. If New Horizons is, like Kaylee said, the tool God gave me to create a better life, I'm pretty sure I'm using it wrong.
Jessica Verdi
#100. Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.
Michael Clarke Duncan