Top 53 God Tests Quotes
#1. God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.
Edward T. Welch
#2. God tests His people through hardship.
John Piper
#3. I know you, you believe that God tests people and you have to have faith that things are going according to His plan.."
"God is not in my bedroom." That was just nine kinds of wrong.
James Buchanan
#5. God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
Ellen G. White
#6. Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn Hulme
#7. The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.
Ambrose
#8. We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
James Frey
#9. Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.
Anthony Doerr
#10. YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.
'Thank you, my God.'
COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO.
Daniel Keidl
#11. The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
Rick Warren
#12. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#13. When someone has had an exceptionally challenging or difficult earthly life, those challenges are often by design. Our Master will test those who are ready to expand. The struggles are designed to increase one's strength and to be a springboard into higher realms.
Kate McGahan
#14. If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.
Rick Warren
#15. God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
Angelus Silesius
#16. Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests - the loss of his possessions and children, the loss of his health, and the loss of his friends and their respect - answers in the affirmative. Yes, it is possible. In fact, it is necessary
Sidney Greidanus
#17. If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance.
Max Lucado
#18. Every time we face tests and trials, God is instigating us to action
Sunday Adelaja
#19. God works as he chooses - we have our tests and He has His revelations
Susan Fletcher
#20. It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.
Geoffrey Canada
#21. God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
Christine Caine
#22. God speaks to man through the Scriptures, and He does not reveal normative truth except as it is already revealed in the Scriptures themselves. The test of truth must remain not what man experiences today but what the Scriptures have stated long ago.
John F. Walvoord
#23. There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are
given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
Richard Paul Evans
#24. He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests
Matthew Hayden
#26. The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#27. Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him
your belief that He is in control and that He is good
can be proved only in times when life is hard.
James MacDonald
#29. Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.
Rick Warren
#30. It almost looked like slow motion. The bag ripped and three pregnancy tests along with a pamphlet on safe sex and one on gonorrhea landed on the front seat with Holiday and Burnett.
Burnett looked down, gasped, and then looked up at Kylie. "For God's sake!" He muttered.
C.C. Hunter
#31. Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God-trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us.
Oswald Chambers
#32. God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Susan L. Taylor
#33. God doesn't give us tests that we can't pass, and he must have figured I could handle whatever was going to happen.
Thomas A. Middleton
#34. Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
Mark Dever
#35. What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
#36. God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.
Max Lucado
#37. If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
Watchman Nee
#38. Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
Watchman Nee
#39. God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.
C.B. Cook
#40. In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.
God placed them along my path.
Paulo Coelho
#41. I had an IQ test. The results came back negative.
Woody Allen
#43. A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.
Henry Blackaby
#44. God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
A.W. Tozer
#45. The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#46. I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen.
Rush Limbaugh
#47. God doesn't test us because he enjoys it. He tests us to find out whether we love him above all things.
Martin Luther
#48. The instructor is always silent when the test is given ... When God is silent in your life ... You are being tested.
Rick Warren
#49. When you face tests and persecution don't complain, but remember that everything works together for good for those who love God
Sunday Adelaja
#51. Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. When God says to us, " Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#53. Study God's word to show thyself approved and be prepared for the tests that we are given. They make our faith stronger and our character more mature, so that our lives better glorify the Lord.
Calvin W. Allison