Top 100 God Ways Quotes
#1. You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian McEwan
#2. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#3. God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
John Calvin
#4. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
Aldous Huxley
#5. 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
#6. The doctrine of the Trinity simply states that God fully exists in three personally distinct ways.
Gregory A. Boyd
#7. In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.
David Baldacci
#8. One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.
Isaac
#10. God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is.
Monica Johnson
#11. We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.
Kristin Armstrong
#13. As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
Neal A. Maxwell
#14. One of the ways over the years that the church has severely weakened corporate prayer is that we let prayer be about the people there, rather than about God. We
Jonathan L Graf
#15. Whoever knows the ways of God can also do the works of God, and lead a nation, manifesting the miracles and signs of God
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
Elizabeth Goudge
#17. Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#18. The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'
David Platt
#19. if you'll take a step of faith to become someone else's miracle, God is going to surprise you in ways you never imagined.
Jamie Larbi
#20. Walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Paulo Coelho
#21. Let disappointment do its deep work
remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself.
Emily P. Freeman
#22. Good God! To think upon a child
That has no childish ways,
No careless days, No frolics wild,
No words of prayer and praise.
- Land
Bonnie E. Virag
#23. Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men.
Anonymous
#24. Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#25. Ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.
Charles R. Swindoll
#26. Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Whoever believes in a God at all, believes in an infinite mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can very well expect and afford to have many of His ways mysterious to us.
Ichabod Spencer
#28. Is there so much suffering, so much death? I was told that God's ways are incomprehensible, and that in many cases, a Job-like humility
James Wood
#29. A wonderful truth engulfed her. She was safe. They were all still safe. As long as they followed the ways of God, they had nothing to fear. He was holy - but he was just. And as long as they followed their godly leaders - like Peter, like Stephen - they would remain protected and on the right path.
Janette Oke
#30. I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I think it's crazy. I mean, I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I still think about it. And I still write about it.
James Frey
#31. Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#32. 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
#33. With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.
K.P. Yohannan
#34. It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.
Jon Stewart
#35. God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka
#38. Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.
Elizabeth George
#39. In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.
Jeremy Lin
#40. We need his kingdom to "come." Calvin believed there were two ways God's kingdom comes - through the Spirit, who "corrects our desires," and through the Word of God, which "shapes our thoughts.
Timothy Keller
#41. There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another ... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#42. If it's God you're worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn't keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.
Diane Samuels
#43. When we are willing to let God shape our identity, He will take whatever we have to offer and multiply it in ways and for a purpose that we cannot even begin to imagine.
Tim Tebow
#44. The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.
Andrew Root
#45. Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
C.S. Lewis
#46. [Jesus] not only kept Himself from engaging in evil, He also continually acted in ways that honored and glorified god. He not only continually avoided the negative, He always pursued the positive.
David Jeremiah
#47. Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
William P. Young
#48. Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.
Elizabeth George
#49. I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
Tim Tebow
#50. We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.
John Owen
#51. We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.
Ronald Reagan
#52. If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.
Lysa TerKeurst
#54. 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
#55. We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.
Nancy Pearcey
#56. He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.
Thomas Merton
#58. As you thus take "sweet counsel" with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your converse is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking unto him; let your heart be full of him; let your lips speak of his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.
Selma Lagerlof
#60. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Fulton J. Sheen
#61. When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.
Joel Osteen
#62. It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible ... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.
Brian D. McLaren
#63. Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.
Benny Hinn
#64. We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.
Henry B. Eyring
#65. Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.
Billy Graham
#66. A child is born with no state of mind,
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
Because only God knows what you'll go through.
Melvin Glover
#67. We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ
Rick Warren
#68. God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Francis Collins
#69. I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful."
- from "Dug Down Deep
Joshua Harris
#70. God has ways to increase you beyond your normal income,
Joel Osteen
#71. God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
John Piper
#72. Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
Adam Hamilton
#73. God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways
Penn Jillette
#74. The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.
John Piper
#75. When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.
Walter Cradock
#76. It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the most balanced and in many ways the most authentic interpretation of the affair.
Royston Lambert
#77. When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
B.B. King
#78. A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.
Mary E. DeMuth
#79. Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?
Jim Starlin
#80. The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
Francis Scott Key
#81. One thing I love about God Almighty is that He works in mysterious ways.
Sometime He will tell you; "Stand still and I will do all the work for you."
Isn't He the one that can make all things possible.
Temitope Owosela
#82. God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
David Platt
#83. Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
John Milton
#84. I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.
Tony Dungy
#85. I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#86. Some girls look to fill the emptiness with their rebellious ways and get into trouble. Other girls try hard to fill the emptiness with good things and get praise. But both girls are reaching for something we'll never find outside of God.
Emily P. Freeman
#87. Love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.
Anonymous
#88. I struggled against God. Not as many do. But still I did, in my own way. I didn't doubt his being. I doubted his ways. I doubted that his ways were better than my ways.
Karen Swallow Prior
#89. It was like carrying a rabbit's foot or throwing salt over your shoulder if you happened to spill any; these things were part of the grain and texture of life, and better to do them than not, just in case God's ways were more mysterious than we Christians could grasp.
Robert McCammon
#91. One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.
Sammy Rhodes
#92. In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
Bernadette Roberts
#93. You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.
Kay Arthur
#94. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
Billy Graham
#95. Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#96. The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.
Henry B. Eyring
#97. The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!
Gareth Roberts
#99. How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#100. God's ways are not our own, but we can always trust that He is good.
Nicole Sager