Top 100 God Takes Quotes
#1. Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Timothy Keller
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change.
Richard Rohr
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.
Deepak Vidyarthi
#9. The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
George Herbert
#10. people can take you to a great place, but God takes you to the best place.
Mariam
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#16. God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
Thomas Watson
#17. 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
#18. I love it when God takes a big stirring spoon to plans. That's when life gets good.
Jenny B. Jones
#20. The hero never rests fights every breath. When he dies god takes him.
Nadair Desmar
#21. 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
#22. I'm fairly certain God takes notes out of my book. He should. If he knows what's good for him.
Sarah Noffke
#23. God takes care of drunks and third basemen
Leo Durocher
#24. To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.
David Servant
#25. Often God takes what is intended as a criticism and turns it into a compliment. The Pharisees said of Jesus, "This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them" (Luke 15:2). Christ's enemies meant it as an accusation; we take it as an accolade!
Jerry Vines
#26. Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over..
The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass by thee must past thee by.
Denver Moore
#27. Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
Judah Smith
#28. many marketing methods are filled with lies and deceit, in order to trap the client. God takes all of this very seriously and it prevents Him from hearing our prayers.
Ana Mendez Ferrell
#29. Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.
Philippa Gregory
#30. I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.
Rick Warren
#31. Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#32. Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
Richard Sibbes
#33. You told me not to worry. You told me that God takes care of his creation...that his timing is always perfect - Rayne
Nicole Deese
#34. If the image of God takes his proper position in society, then many will want to come to God
Sunday Adelaja
#35. When God takes your straw, it isn't because he wants you to remain a slave. It's because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.
Jud Wilhite
#36. Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
Who came sure from a sea of light?
Or since those drops are all sent back
So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
Why should frail flesh doubt any more
That what God takes, He'll not restore?
Henry Vaughan
#37. The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.
Billy Graham
#39. [...] we all die, and the length of our life has been set before the earth was formed. Sometimes God takes the little ones to keep the eyes of the rest of the family on Heaven. They will never forget where this road leads if one of their own has already come to the end of it.
Susan Claire Potts
#40. As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.
H.L. Mencken
#41. By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life. The saint in whom God takes pleasure is the ideal castrate. Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Dorothy Day
#43. Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#44. God takes the willing heart rather than the obviously powerful as his instruments to use in the Kingdom of God.
Dominique Atkinson
#45. When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!
Dada Bhagwan
#46. God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?
Francis De Sales
#47. Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Carl Olson
#48. We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
John Calvin
#49. The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.
George R R Martin
#50. Sometimes God takes us down to nothing so that He can give us all we need. Often we try to hold on to everything anyway, creating idols that mean more to us than God does. We don't realize that our grip is actually crushing the things we love. Our stubbornness does more damage than good.
Nicole Sager
#51. There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.
Denver Moore
#52. God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
Billy Graham
#53. When sinners judge, God takes the stand.
Toba Beta
#54. God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.
Lauryn Hill
#55. How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
F.B. Meyer
#56. If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#57. I would rather have the favor of God than the blessing of a million men, for the favor of God takes the work of my hands and leaves a million men utterly astonished at the greatness of the feat.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
God takes a text, and preaches patience.
George Herbert
#60. I suspect that the god many people worship is psycho. Because their god takes delight in the fact that his kids suffer.
Bo Sanchez
#61. God takes enormous satisfaction in seeing you victorious in your everyday life.
Pedro Okoro
#62. He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
Philo
#63. Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.
Derwin L. Gray
#65. God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden ...
The best gift of the desert is God's presence ... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.
Paul E. Miller
#66. I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
Eugene H. Peterson
#68. When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.
David Jeremiah
#69. Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink.
Kenny Chesney
#70. The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love.
Joshua Harris
#71. God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them ...
Richard Sibbes
#72. God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.
Jim George
#73. It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.
Marianne Williamson
#74. When we obey God, we're not doing it for God ... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.
Victoria Osteen
#75. God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.
Charles Stanley
#76. All the flowers of the field, and many of the beasts of the plain, and now the very orbs of heaven, are turned into metaphors and symbols by which the glory of Jesus may be manifested to us. Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. Wherever the plan of God takes you, the grace of God will sustain you.
John Paul Warren
#79. [ ... ]patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#80. God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!
Paula White
#81. Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
Eric Davis
#82. Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.'
'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#83. 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
#84. He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.
Guru Amar Das
#85. 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
#86. Every Christian should have a dream so big, it takes God himself to fulfill that dream.
K.M. Logan
#87. 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
#88. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.
Jim George
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.
Tommy Tenney
