Top 85 God S Answers Quotes
#1. If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#2. Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
Adoniram Judson
#3. Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.
Timothy Keller
#5. There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.
Stormie O'martian
#6. So,what do they call you if they don't know your name?"
There's a brief pause before he answers.
"The Wrath of God.
Susan Ee
#7. I have learned that God's silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers - but I do have him.
Dave Dravecky
#8. We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God's presence.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#9. When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
James L. Kraft
#10. We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.
Thomas Merton
#11. When Moses says, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" God answers not by telling Moses who he is, but by telling him who God is, saying, "I will be with you" (Exodus 3:12)
Harold S. Kushner
#12. You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn't owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you're going to have to give up your right to understanding. It's called trust.
Bill Johnson
#13. When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
C.S. Lewis
#14. I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.
Stormie O'martian
#15. We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.
Peter Forsyth
#16. I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient ... for now.
Toni Sorenson
#17. I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.
James Hillman
#18. Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
Tullian Tchividjian
#20. (in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you: "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.
Liza Minnelli
#21. Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.
Ravi Zacharias
#22. Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?
Sri Chinmoy
#23. Though cultures differ and times change, the Word of our God stands forever as an unchanging source of answers to all of life's problems.
Billy Graham
#24. The problem is that spiritual answers cannot be deduced by human reason alone (1 Cor. 2:14). It's not that spiritual truth is irrational or illogical, but that human wisdom is defective, because it's tainted by man's sinfulness, and unable to perceive the things of God.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#25. It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.
Ole Hallesby
#26. Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.
Max Lucado
#27. As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#28. Often times we allow ourselves to become impatient, by viewing God's promises based on our human knowledge. Our thoughts and ways are irrelevant in his judgment to grant any of our requests. We need to have patience and trust in God for answers to our requests.
Ellen J. Barrier
#29. There are many problems which could only
be solved by generations which are still to be
born later. It's only one way of many how God
gives answers to human problems and prayers.
Toba Beta
#30. I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I'd deserved God's grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town.
But I did know how to shoot a gun. - Skylla Warden
Rachael Wade
#31. God's reply to Job makes one simple point: while human beings may have questions about how the Lord rules His world, they have no justification for demanding answers from Him. He is the Creator, but we are the creatures.
Anonymous
#32. Every question I'd ever had God answered and still continues to answer every one I have today. It's really amazing what God can do.
Christian Hosoi
#33. If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
C.S. Lewis
#34. on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar's book The Limits of Science: 'I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers generally, for I believe it would give satisfaction and comfort to many in need of it if it were possible to discover good scientific and philosophic reasons to believe in God.
Richard Dawkins
#35. When God answers your prayers and sends down his blessings to you in prosperity, thank him by helping those in need. There's is no greater way to be thankful than helping to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#36. God instantly answers every prayer that's based on a promise in His Word.
Andrew Wommack
#37. There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is.
Sri Chinmoy
#38. I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
Darin Strauss
#39. If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism - one world religion with one god made out of many.
J. Sidlow Baxter
#40. Heavenly Father, I will always call on you, I know you will answer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
Criss Jami
#42. God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Oswald Chambers
#43. The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time
His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
Elisabeth Elliot
#44. The mystery of God's love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers.
Billy Graham
#45. Whereas orthodox Christianity answers Jesus' question to Peter - "Who do you say I am?" (Mark 8:29) - by affirming that Christ was both God (the Creator of the universe, the Lord of Israel) and human (an average Joe, yet without sin), these heretical thinkers answered the question differently.
Justin S. Holcomb
#46. The Taellywood treasure beckoned us. All of us ached for God's wisdom. We had so many questions. We wanted to know why things happened the way they did. We needed to know. We desired the truth and we yearned for answers to many of life's questions.
Pat Patrick
#49. Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#50. Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
David Jeremiah
#51. Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.
Edgar Mitchell
#52. Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
Francis Chan
#54. Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.
Sharon Jaynes
#56. There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.
James Stalker
#57. But why will God not speak to me? ... I think when God is silent, He wants us to prove in our hearts that we are willing to follow Him no matter the cost. If all answers were crystal-clear, how could we show our devotion to Him?
Jennifer Beckstrand
#58. Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
Ronald Reagan
#59. 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
Dave Gahan
#60. How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#61. There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.
David G. McAfee
#62. Maybe we can pray and God answers in ways we can't see and it doesn't all happen spontaneously. Maybe it's about the journey, too."
(Undercover Protector)
Elizabeth Goddard
#64. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#65. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.
Randall Robinson
#66. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. Tou think you're the only one he never answers?
Markus Zusak
#67. God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Oswald Chambers
#68. When someone is self-sufficient, when he has all the answers to all the questions, it's a sign that God is not with him. Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra, 2010
Julie Schwietert Collazo
#69. When silence is God's only voice,
And waiting on Him my only choice,
A banner of faith I humbly raise
And offer a sacrifice of praise.
Though answers He may not impart,
Forever I can trust His heart.
Kathy Herman
#70. The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.
William Avery
#71. When men drive God's word from them he justly permits their delusions, and answers them according to the multitude of their idols.
Matthew Henry
#72. A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers.
Echo Bodine
#73. We don't have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He's for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
J. Edwin Orr
#75. God's people need to unashamedly and uncompromisingly stand on the Bible. We need to unashamedly proclaim a Christian worldview and the gospel, all the while giving answers for the hope we have.
Ken Ham
#76. God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding.
Jimmy Carter
#77. We need to learn and remind ourselves every day that God's favor - His blessings and answers to prayer - comes to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ. - Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Everyday Life
Matt Perman
#78. If God's Word says He hears and answers prayer, and if that Word doesn't depart from before your eyes, then you're bound to see yourself with the things you asked for. If you don't see yourself with the things you desire, then God's Word has departed from before your eyes.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#80. Intercession is speaking and singing God's heart back to Him. He has made His plans and purposes known to us in His Word. We are to discern His will and call it forth in faith and partnership with Him, and He answers by stretching out His hand in authority.
Anna Blanc
#81. Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.
Elizabeth I
#82. God usually answers questions different than the way we want him to. He's predictably unpredictable. Always the same at surprising us.
Jessiqua Wittman
#83. As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
Francis Collins
#84. The truth is there's not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there's too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there's a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can't find answers is because the search party didn't invite us.
Shane Koyczan
#85. Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
Albert Mohler
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