Top 100 God Is Not Quotes
#2. In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. ( ... ) God is not in the forest. Maybe He is too busy looking after sports teams or worrying about teenagers having sex before marriage. I think they take up a lot of His time.
Lauren Beukes
#3. Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.
Rajneesh
#6. God is not going to entertain me, and God is not going to be entertained by me. This fact rules out a lot that passes for worship today.
A.W. Tozer
#7. I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
Tony Campolo
#9. ...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground.
Marilyn Lacey
#10. The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
Immanuel Kant
#11. It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.
Stephen Charnock
#12. Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.
Elizabeth George
#13. God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.
Mark Batterson
#14. Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
John Donne
#15. Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
R.C. Sproul
#16. God is not subject to religion. Religion is subject to God.
Steve Maraboli
#17. That so-called faith in Christ which professes to release men from the obligation of obedience to God, is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith." But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead." Ephesians 2:8; James 2:17.
Ellen G. White
#18. God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.
Mother Angelica
#19. Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results, as if our relationship with God resembled putting coins in a vending machine. It is a personal relationship, and such relationships involve freedom on both sides. Joel
John E. Goldingay
#20. God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
Oscar Romero
#21. God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander
#22. God is not the author of confusion but is the author of
peace.
Quentin L. Cook
#24. God is not supposed to fix the earth, he created man for that.
Sunday Adelaja
#25. The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.
Rajneesh
#26. He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.
Jim Cymbala
#27. There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill
#29. The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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R.C. Sproul
#30. God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
Martin Luther
#31. In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
Jaggi Vasudev
#32. In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#33. If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.
Neal A. Maxwell
#35. The best place to find God is not in the temple, but your heart, where kindness and love reside.
Debasish Mridha
#36. God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#37. Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.
John Piper
#38. God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation.
Mike Tyson
#39. My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
Emily Dickinson
#40. God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
Max Lucado
#41. God is not to be blamed for your inability to fulfill your destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#42. God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
Rajneesh
#43. If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
Rod Serling
#44. Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.
Max Lucado
#45. Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.
John Shelby Spong
#46. No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true.
Ken Ham
#47. God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.
Frederick Lenz
#48. God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.
Neva Coyle
#49. God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
Oswald Chambers
#50. God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for God cherishes all creatures. God is not only the creator, but is also the sustainer and nourisher.
Martin Luther
#51. God is not confined by what you can imagine.
Louie Giglio
#52. Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a revival if God is not the thing that gets us excited.
Jerry Falwell
#53. God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Aeschylus
#54. God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.
Matt Chandler
#56. God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
Plotinus
#57. If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
Tullian Tchividjian
#59. Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.
Michelle Griep
#60. What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest.
James Riordan
#61. The New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.
Andrew Murray
#62. God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#63. God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.
Max Lucado
#64. The Jewish Talmud is right in saying that the prayer in which there is no mention of the kingdom of God is not a prayer at all (Berakoth 21a).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#65. If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed
Sunday Adelaja
#66. God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
Saint Augustine
#67. What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.
Paul Washer
#68. God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers
he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.
Clarence Jordan
#69. The law of God is not made the rule of life. The children, as they make homes of their own, feel under no obligation to teach their children what they themselves have never been taught.
Ellen G. White
#70. Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Vivian Elisabeth Glyck
#71. To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#72. The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
John Ruskin
#73. To reconfess past sins would be to doubt the reality of God's forgiveness. God is not like us. When God forgives, it is once and for all - complete and permanent.
Redemptorists
#74. I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.
John Bertram Phillips
#76. In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.
Walter Brueggemann
#77. It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
Desmond Tutu
#78. To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form.
James W. Sire
#79. The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
Roy Moore
#80. I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had
Plato's white grandfatherly god
because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
William P. Young
#81. God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.
Craig Groeschel
#82. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.
Ricky Gervais
#83. God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.
Billy Graham
#84. God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?
Swami Vivekananda
#85. Out of all these people, Zarathustra is unique. He is the only one who is not against life, who is for life; whose god is not somewhere else, whose god is nothing but another name for life itself. And to live totally, to live joyously and to live intensely, is all that religion is based on. I
Osho
#86. God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
#87. Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.
Rajneesh
#88. In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
George MacDonald
#89. Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home - these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.
Rachel Held Evans
#91. I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else
Cornelius Van Til
#92. The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God ... or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
Elisabeth Elliot
#93. God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.
Pope Francis
#94. Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.
Peter Kreeft
#95. To know God is not a matter of education, but of illumination. The stairwell to illumination is utter fascination in the presence of God. Push out all other activities and come in silent wonder and admiration in the presence of God. Then God will open up His heart and illuminate Himself to you.
A.W. Tozer
#97. The Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God's power.
Anonymous
#98. God is not there just for emergencies.
Joyce Meyer
#99. Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
Oprah Winfrey
#100. God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!
Mychal Judge