Top 100 God Must Quotes
#1. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.
Watchman Nee
#2. And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God ... must it be sane?
Lucien LaCroix
#3. We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
Dean Koontz
#4. If the life of a man or woman on earth is to bear the fragrance of heaven the winds of God must blow on that life, winds not always balmy from the south, but fierce winds from the north that chill the very marrow.
Elisabeth Elliot
#5. We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.
Beth Moore
#6. God's Word should both fuel our faith and define our petitions. God must keep His Word.
Michael P. V. Barrett
#7. Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man ...
Sylvia Plath
#8. Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
Alain De Botton
#9. God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
Joan Baez
#10. God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
Philip Wylie
#11. The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#12. To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. 20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister,* that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.*
Anonymous
#15. You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.
Neale Donald Walsch
#16. It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.
Rene Descartes
#17. God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
Will Durst
#19. The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
Sri Aurobindo
#20. There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.
Eugene H. Peterson
#21. 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
Lord Byron
#22. The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
P. G. T. Beauregard
#24. I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?
Catherine Marshall
#25. Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
Phillips Brooks
#26. Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Howard Zinn
#27. God must be more valuable to us than anything. We must put God first as opposed to just trying to to squeeze Him into our lives.
Michael Brown
#28. Everyone who believes in God must therefore admit (quite apart from the question of prayer) that God has not chosen to write the whole of history with His own hand.
C.S. Lewis
#29. I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.
Brian Francis
#30. Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
Frederick William Robertson
#31. God must build our anointing strong, so He can lay His glory thick.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#32. Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
Oswald Chambers
#33. Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.
James Whitcomb Riley
#34. I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power
Bill Johnson
#36. How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
Mignon McLaughlin
#37. God must have loved the birds, or he would not have given them wings that he gave to his angels.
Arash Hejazi
#38. God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably ... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.
Thomas Merton
#39. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement - it all adds up to one word: happiness
Randy Alcorn
#40. For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#42. Every work you do should be done unto the Lord and your love to God must show in the quality of your product
Sunday Adelaja
#44. The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.
George Eldon Ladd
#45. I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
Vincent Van Gogh
#46. I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
Babe Ruth
#47. Now this, this is hell! Nimeta said to herself. I've lived to see hell on earth. God must be making us pay for our sins here and now.
Ayse Kulin
#48. Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.
Jennifer Beals
#49. But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.
C.S. Lewis
#50. My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?
Jean Harlow
#51. I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.
Jodi Benson
#52. Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2
James MacDonald
#53. From earliest times men wholly ignorant of the Bible have concluded on the basis of the design in the universe that God must exist.
William Lane Craig
#54. Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#55. My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.
Jack Higgins
#56. [On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.
Jeanne Calment
#57. Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#58. If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.
Maya Angelou
#59. Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.
Dan Brown
#60. Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
Augustus William Hare
#61. If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.
Judith Plaskow
#62. Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
Martin Luther
#63. God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. I came to the conclusion that if a woman of the cloth could be so sure she was going to heave despite being such a massive asshole, God must be more lenient than I'd been led to believe.
Jessica Knoll
#65. God must've had single women in mind when he invented dogs
Kristan Higgins
#66. God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
John Stott
#67. The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#68. God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
Kenneth Patchen
#69. There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#70. Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.
Edwin Newman
#71. We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
Jerry Bridges
#72. A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
Jonathan Edwards
#73. And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My parents had 11 children. While I love them and my five brothers and five sisters deeply, some days I felt lost in the litter.
Regina Brett
#75. There must be some supreme creative energy, he thought, that can take love and turn it into synapses and then take a population of synapses and turn it into love. The hand of God must be there
David Brooks
#76. There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi
Yann Martel
#77. St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?
Alphonsus Liguori
#78. If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?
Bo Goldman
#80. The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.
Philip Neri
#82. In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done ... God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.
Joan D. Chittister
#83. Private soul-searching is not enough to determine your call to the ministry. The judgment of the people of God must be sought; long before the time when it must be given formally it should be sought informally.
Edmund P. Clowney
#84. In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#85. If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.
Jacob Vargas
#86. If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.
Martin Luther
#88. You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
Will Rogers
#89. God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.
Richard Wurmbrand
#90. When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
Meister Eckhart
#91. God must be a designer. Everything around us is well-done
Islam Atef Aly
#92. The are times when in mercy God must shatter our most cherished assumptions
Thomas Morton
#93. God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."
Gloria Gaither
#95. Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
Carl Sagan
#96. Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
Oswald Chambers
#97. Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself
Carl Jung
#98. If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#99. For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
Thomas Aquinas
#100. If it be objected that God must give every man an opportunity to be saved, we reply that the outward call does give every man who hears it an opportunity to be saved. The message is: 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.'
Loraine Boettner
