Top 36 God Takes The Good Ones Quotes
#1. If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
#3. 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
#4. It takes practice to become proficient at something. Practicing the presence of God will make us good at it.
R. Alan Woods
#5. 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
#6. It is faith - without good works and prior to good works - that takes us to heaven. We come to God through faith alone.
Martin Luther
#7. God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives.
Bob Coy
#8. A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good.
Tad Williams
#9. What it was was a lot, including the fact that maybe, just maybe, I was going to be special in some way to him too. And
Kristen Ashley
#10. It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.
Henry B. Eyring
#11. I feel like a quote out of context,
Ben Folds
#12. Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Susan Orlean
#13. To the good God nothing is little because He is so great and we so small- that is why He stoops down and takes the trouble to make those little things for us- to give us a chance to prove our love for Him.
Mother Teresa
#14. I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
Ethel Waters
#15. God is good only when everything is good. When everything is bad, the devil takes control; god reappears when everything is in order once again. That's what my pastor taught me.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#16. There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
Bryan Adams
#17. Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
Kay Arthur
#18. 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
#19. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.
Toni Morrison
#20. 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
#21. The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
George Herbert
#22. I love it when God takes a big stirring spoon to plans. That's when life gets good.
Jenny B. Jones
#23. The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
Homer
#24. I'm fairly certain God takes notes out of my book. He should. If he knows what's good for him.
Sarah Noffke
#25. Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!
Marcel Proust
#26. The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but does absolve the wrongdoer after a change of heart takes place in the sinner through the gift of God's grace.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#27. God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.
Jocelyn Gibb
#28. Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
Zac Efron
#30. If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
Sarada Devi
#31. It does no good to stake a claim on someone's heart. Unless they give it to you, it isn't yours to take. All you can do is share your heart and hope she wants it. All you can do is offer it and hope she takes it. All you can do is love her and hope to God she finds a way to love you back.
Katy Regnery
#32. Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
Wilhelm Keitel
#33. Show of hands," Devon said, breaking the silence. "Who thinks we're screwed?
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#34. Always cooperate with the work God is doing in you. The more we resist, the longer it takes. Don't ever let how you feel dictate God's love for you. He is always loving us, even when our circumstances don't make us feel good.
Joyce Meyer
#36. 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
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