Top 100 God Takes Quotes
#1. Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Timothy Keller
#2. At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
Marion Woodman
#3. He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.
Guru Amar Das
#4. God takes highly unlikely people, takes them into highly unlikely places, gives them a highly unlikely strategy,and gives them a highly unlikely outcome.
Christine Caine
#5. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.
Gavin G. Smith
#6. Every Christian should have a dream so big, it takes God himself to fulfill that dream.
K.M. Logan
#7. Wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#8. The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
Billy Graham
#9. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#11. Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli
#12. Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.
Francis Quarles
#13. I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.
Andrew Ripp
#14. Temptation yielded to is lust deified (My Utmost for His Highest, September 17 entry). Temptation comes in many forms, but it is always personal, uncannily tailor-made for our individual moral weakness, and it takes aim at God's character, seeking to ransack our faith.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#15. God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change.
Richard Rohr
#16. Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29
John Paul Warren
#17. God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.
Edward T. Welch
#18. Each of us has been given the ability to reach God with our prayers ... Whatever form it takes, each prayer is an invitation for God to bring his power into another life. God wants to help us, but he waits for us to seek his help.
Betty Eadie
#19. It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.
Jim George
#20. As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. The length of time it takes to catch on to this relationship depends on us - not God. The more willing we are to confess our inadequacy, the easier it is for us to fully surrender to His will for our lives.
Charles F. Stanley
#22. It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.
Tommy Tenney
#23. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#24. Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
Oswald Chambers
#26. God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.
F.B. Meyer
#27. His eyes are ravenous but his body is still tense, and so I slip my bra strap off my shoulder and motion my finger at him. He takes a deep breath, slips off his silver cross necklace, and tosses it aside. Whatever is about to happen, it seems that he does not want God around to witness it.
Seth King
#28. My God, Sky. You look like you're about to pass out. Sit down. She takes the bottle from my hands and forces me into a chair.
Colleen Hoover
#29. When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.
Shane Claiborne
#30. The incarnation, passion, and resurrection of the Son do not modify the Trinity. In becoming man, the Son 'enhanced human nature without diminishing the divine.' 'Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is forever perfect.
Gilles Emery
#31. the humble man takes whatever there is in the world that helps him to find God and leaves the rest aside. He
Thomas Merton
#32. Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
Louis Pasteur
#33. I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.
Louie Gohmert
#34. Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.
Matthew Henry
#35. What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.
Nirmala Srivastava
#36. But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!
George MacDonald
#37. When human aid fails us, all is not wanting; for God takes over and takes care of us by His special Providence.
Francis De Sales
#38. But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary.
When
James Martin
#39. There is but one power which heals - that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.
Abdu'l- Baha
#40. God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.
Henry Allen Ironside
#42. Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.
John Eldredge
#44. God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because of this, we can come to God empty and weak knowing that He takes us and with His power makes something out of nothing.
Vicky Beeching
#45. Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me.
I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm ... Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.
Mari Mancusi
#47. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#48. The birth of Jesus is a birth with a message. It takes the entire Bible to bring the complete message, but this birth is the core of it: In Jesus, God is here to give us life, real life.
Eugene H. Peterson
#49. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.
John Paul Jackson
#50. All the world talks, knowledge or information, takes you nowhere unless it's applied into life. It's only the experience, which allows you to see, beyond the present state.
Roshan Sharma
#52. You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the poor bastard who takes a bath with the duckie
Cassandra Clare
#53. It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.
Sheila Walsh
#54. Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.
Maximus The Confessor
#55. An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.
Deepak Vidyarthi
#56. It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this thing that maybe just won't ever exist?" I always think, God, acting is so much easier. At least for acting you have the source material already.
Jason Schwartzman
#57. Natural theology, in other words, is in no way a step on the way toward the theology which takes God's self-revelation as its starting point. It is more likely, in fact, to lead in the opposite direction.
Lesslie Newbigin
#58. The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
George Herbert
#59. people can take you to a great place, but God takes you to the best place.
Mariam
#60. I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
Rodney King
#61. When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.
Dwight L. Moody
#63. A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
Bill Crawford
#64. Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot
#65. Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#66. The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.
Pope Francis
#67. It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
Marianne Williamson
#68. We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
Simone Weil
#69. When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small according to the measure of our abandonment.
Francis De Sales
#70. Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
James Russell Lowell
#71. God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
Richard Baxter
#72. Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.
John Piper
#73. God makes us with the exact ingredients we need for life. Unfortunately we spoil the mix by throwing in extras that damage the final outcome. God takes the rest of our lives trying to heal and restore us back to His perfect cake mix.
Margaret Kazmierczak
#74. To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#75. God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak
#76. The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.
Orson Scott Card
#77. The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.
Jorge Luis Borges
#78. God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
Thomas Watson
#79. The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away
Martin Luther
#80. I love it when God takes a big stirring spoon to plans. That's when life gets good.
Jenny B. Jones
#81. Lucy Marie Maris ... I am completely and utterly in love with you. And as god is my witness- no matter how long it takes- someday I will be worthy enough to be your husband, because I can't bear the thought of living without you.
Gina L. Maxwell
#82. God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
Henry Ward Beecher
#84. Big love is the kind of love that takes in more than the self. It's love for something bigger than the self. It's love of God, of the universe, of the family, of the pack, of the tribe. It inspires courage and selflessness in those who know it.
Angelo Dirks
#85. The hero never rests fights every breath. When he dies god takes him.
Nadair Desmar
#86. The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.
William Arnot
#87. It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#88. And so, God, in no hurry whatsoever, painstakingly chips away, removing everything that is not part of the image of Christ. He takes the initiative to interrupt our lives for the higher cost of developing us into spiritually mature believers.
A.W. Tozer
#89. Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#90. It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.
Cyc Jouzy
#91. Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.
Thomas Goodwin
#92. Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.
Harold B. Lee
#93. God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.
Pope Francis
#94. The truth we need to achieve has many aspects. It includes the developmental needs of the real self, the grace of relationship, and the external truth of the precepts of God. And it takes time for all of these to work.
Henry Cloud
#95. Ours is a God who waits. Who are we not to? It takes what it takes for the great turnaround. Wait for it.
Gregory Boyle
#96. 1877. The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the Father's only Son. This vocation takes a personal form since each of us is called to enter into the divine beatitude; it also concerns the human community as a whole.
The Catholic Church
#97. God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.
Lysa TerKeurst
#98. Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
Susanna Wesley
#99. It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That's fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one
Kristiane Backer
#100. He who takes whatever God sends with smile has learned lifes hardest lesson.
Roland Winters
