God We Quotes

#1. God," he cries, dying on Mars, "God, we made it!

Theodore Sturgeon

#2. Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

Penn Jillette

#3. Now in the sun's new dawning ray, lowly of heart, our God we pray that He from harm may keep us free in all the deeds this day shall see.

Glenn Cooper

#4. From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal. Moreover,

John Calvin

#5. Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Joyce Meyer

#6. Dear Lord, you know our need and how much we depend upon your help. We're not going to give you orders about what to do, God. We are just going to thank you for being there when we need you. In the name of Jesus, your Son. Amen.

Janette Oke

#7. We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Charles Colson

#8. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given.

Linda Dillow

#9. In a postmodern world where all religious activity is seen as what we do for God, we need to proclaim Christianity is about what God has done for us.

Jefferson Bethke

#10. Word to God, we murderers.

Ja Rule

#11. For with God we can miss nothing. We can no more miss anything with God than God can. Accept the one way from God then, and draw all that is good into it.

Meister Eckhart

#12. From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Samuel Johnson

#13. We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.

Pope Francis

#14. We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

Allen West

#15. No ... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.

Clyde DeSouza

#16. A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#17. Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

J.I. Packer

#18. In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

Robert Breault

#19. Every time we give in to selfishness and say "No" to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

Pope Francis

#20. We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#21. In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with our Creator. And what a privilege! To have access to the throne room of heaven anytime we choose is a divine benefit we should not ignore.

Bob Lepine

#22. There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.

Thomas Merton

#23. There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#24. When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic.

Marco Rubio

#25. Guilt is not of God. We receive only a divine conviction with our shame swallowed up in Christ. Walk in truth and find freedom in His Grace!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#26. The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.

Oswald Chambers

#27. We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

John Piper

#28. If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.

David Platt

#29. Too often, what we want is the stuff of God. We want protection. We want his provision. We want to be defended when we're dishonored. We want to be helped when we serve. We want what God can bring us, but do we really want him?

Mark Hall

#30. If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to the
principles of the Kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#31. By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

Ann Druyan

#32. When we give up on what draws us near to God, we become like beasts.

L. Michael Morales

#33. When we start to understand God, we will be offended less and we will react less to negative circumstances

Sunday Adelaja

#34. In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.

Oswald Chambers

#35. What other goal could there be, then finding one's self within God and God within one's very Self? For as we know God, we also are known.

Vivian Amis

#36. Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

Mother Teresa

#37. We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Norman Mailer

#38. The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.

Richard Sibbes

#39. This isn't a very popular idea in the American church, where we separate our love for God from our service to God. We say we love God most, but it's a vague statement that yields little action.

Francis Chan

#40. If we become enamored with something in this world we think offers better fullness than God, we will make room for it. We leak out His fullness to make room for something else we want to chase.

Lysa TerKeurst

#41. For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!

Peter Kreeft

#42. Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

Joyce Meyer

#43. Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.

Oswald Chambers

#44. As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

Charles Stanley

#45. Oh God, Oh God we're all gonna die doesn't really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Lilith Saintcrow

#46. In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

J. Vernon McGee

#47. The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or

John Calvin

#48. We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#49. It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Oswald Chambers

#50. We cannot tame the Lion of Judah. There is a mystery, a wonder, and, yes, even a wildness about God we cannot take from Him.

Beth Moore

#51. I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

Eduardo Paes

#52. Very often, we are confronted by people who want us to pray their way or colleagues who want us to think their way. We must remember to maintain our individual relationship with God. We have the shining light of Soul, and because we have it, we also have the wisdom of God.

Harold Klemp

#53. We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Matthew Henry

#54. Forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really? A quick check to see

Lysa TerKeurst

#55. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

Marianne Williamson

#56. Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

Joyce Meyer

#57. Something deep inside each one of us seeks to prove we are good enough--to our parents, our friends, ourselves, God. We do this because we know deep down that we aren't good enough, and the illusion of feeling like good people feels better than the reality of knowing we are not.

Chris Tomlinson

#58. God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#59. 9Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

Anonymous

#60. If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Joyce Meyer

#61. It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.

Evinda Lepins

#62. There's no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we've experienced God, not what or who God is.

John Shelby Spong

#63. The God we serve will make His presence known, when you praise

Fred Hammond

#64. If we abide in love for God we will be forever united with Him and with His kingdom of love.

Sunday Adelaja

#65. We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.

Og Mandino

#66. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Tony Campolo

#67. God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

N. T. Wright

#68. Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.

Hilda Doolittle

#69. As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him - to give God "elbow room." We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.

Oswald Chambers

#70. "The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

Swami Vivekananda

#71. Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#72. But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#73. What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him? If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Swami Vivekananda

#74. We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.

Brian Krans

#75. We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Golda Meir

#76. With Jesus, if we want to gain, we must give up. If we want to be filled, we must deny ourselves. If we want to truly get close to God, we'll have to distance ourselves from other things. If we want to conquer our cravings, we'll have to redirect them to God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#77. In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

David Platt

#78. [When it comes to God] We can't run out of second chances ... only time.

Robin Jones Gunn

#79. My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.

Sue Miller

#80. We don't need to forgive God. We need to live un-offended with Him. Part of living un-offended at God is agreeing to live without what He withholds.

Trevor Lund

#81. For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

G.K. Chesterton

#82. Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).

R.C. Sproul

#83. Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Tony Evans

#84. Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

Francis Asbury

#85. In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#86. You listen to me, woman: you're mine! I'll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!" His mouth came down hard on hers and his lips crushed hers as he stamped his possession on her startled mouth.

Shirlee Busbee

#87. Without our God we should fear to move; but when He bids us to, it would be dangerous to tarry.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#88. If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

Tupac Shakur

#89. In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

Francis Chan

#90. In God we trust," he brusquely told a journalist. "All others [must] have data.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#91. With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans - fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Lysa TerKeurst

#92. One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.

John Fairclough

#93. People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust ... '

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#94.
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

Oscar A. Romero

#95. If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Ziggy Marley

#96. The god we now behold with opened eyes,
A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

Ovid

#97. As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important ..

John Wimber

#98. If we want to obtain the wisdom of God, we have to be capable of fellowshipping with God on a spiritual level.

Sunday Adelaja

#99. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#100. As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.

A.W. Tozer