Top 100 God When Quotes
#1. When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#2. It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.
Penelope Wilcock
#3. We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible's single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.
Jonathan Sacks
#4. The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.
George H. Smith
#6. On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
Celine Dion
#8. All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.
Sathya Sai Baba
#9. The problem with fear-based Christianity is we only obey when the fear is there. If you only want to obey God when you feel threatened by his commands, it's not God you worship, but your fear.
Jefferson Bethke
#10. We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent - the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.
Paul David Tripp
#11. Oh, my God, when Ivy got it wrong, she really got it wrong. I didn't need a boyfriend. I had all the drama I could stand right here.
Kim Harrison
#13. And how can one be a slave and not a slave? When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#14. Thought you didn't believe in God," I said to Savannah as we moved slowly past the Coast Guard base at the end of the Charleston peninsula. "I don't," Savannah answered, "but I believe in Luke and he believes in God and I always believe in God when I truly need him." "Situational faith," I said.
Pat Conroy
#15. Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.
Mark Hart
#16. Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
Richard Baxter
#17. People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying to maintain the face of God. In the end, you must place your hopes and prayers with the angels. It has become quite sad in Heaven without its puppet master.
Lionel Suggs
#18. The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon.
Phil Pringle
#19. Smile is God's gift but the Man who smiles is his creation. Never forget God when you are happy.
Me
#20. Everything should be considered as a gift of God. When anything wrong comes to you and you think it is a gift, it won't stay with you. Do you know that? Try it sometime.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#21. Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Tony Campolo
#22. By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask what you can do for your country," he spoke to this country's heart and conscience.
Garrison Keillor
#23. Don't get angry towards God, when your lovers don't satisfy you
Natalia Silva
#24. You recognize God when you begin to recognize people
Sunday Adelaja
#26. We express our lack of trust in God when we complain
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great.
Andrew Ryan
#28. Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#29. There's a cardinal rule in book publishing that applies equally to brain surgery and auto mechanics: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since people are still buying the original Where Is God When It Hurts?
Philip Yancey
#30. I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.
Dries Van Noten
#31. If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that
the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God, when it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.
Mike Huckabee
#33. When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#34. We fellowship with God when we fellowship with people
Sunday Adelaja
#35. I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.
Rachel Held Evans
#36. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
Isidore Of Seville
#37. Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags.
Jonathan Kozol
#38. Are you feeling exposed to the storms of life? Read Psalm 91, a wonderful promise from God. When we love him and tell others about that love, he moves to protect us. "I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them" (v. 15 NLT).
Max Lucado
#39. Pay heed to this, how you are turned toward your God, when you are in church or in your cell. Maintain this same state of mind and bear it among the crowd and into unrest and dissimilarity.
Meister Eckhart
#40. Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
Anonymous
#41. we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#42. WE LIVE out the love of God when we care for those he brings into our lives. Have you ever been surprised by who you came to love, because they became yours in some way?
Shauna Niequist
#43. Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God.
Gillian Flynn
#44. The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Wayne Dyer
#45. You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
Joanne Harris
#46. It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.
Oswald Chambers
#47. It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
William Booth
#48. It takes courage to trust God when unsaved family and friends think it is a bit radical or irresponsible to trust God with our problems.
Debbie Alsdorf
#49. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#50. The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.
George MacDonald
#51. I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
Charles Spurgeon
#52. Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.
Ellis Peters
#53. God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.
Josemaria Escriva
#54. There ain't no devil, it's just God when he's drunk.
Tom Waits
#55. Your enemies still figure into God's plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn't given up on them. They may be out of God's will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects.
Max Lucado
#56. I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
Little Richard
#57. It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.
Joseph Lowery
#58. Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God ... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind ... I consider them apostates.
John Taylor
#59. It's in the doubt, the ways we murder God when we most need him.
Seth Haines
#60. who can dare claim to believe in God when they slaughter civilians merely to gain a slight advantage?
Christopher G. Nuttall
#61. It's impossible to not believe in God when you see all the good in the world.
Karina Halle
#62. There is only one passion that can help us control the many other passions that plague us; that is the passion to know and obey God. When we get out of touch with Christ, we begin touching the things of the world, trying to fill the void that human flesh craves.
Billy Graham
#63. A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve
Thomas Paine
#64. To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.
Owen Feltham
#65. To believe God when He said He works all things together for good for those who love Him.
Lynette Eason
#66. Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
P. J. O'Rourke
#67. There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk.
Tom Waits
#68. How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#69. The author creates worlds with words like God when he says, "Let there be...
Jearl Rugh
#70. Where was your all-loving god when he was really needed?
Edgar Allan Poe
#71. We think to question God when bridges fall but not to wonder at his grace that every bridge does not. Every fit of laughter, every delectable morsel of food, and every single smile is the result of his mercy and grace; he owes us none of it. Now let me tell you why this is so terrifying. If
Matt Chandler
#72. When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. How good is our God! When we can no longer come to Him, He comes to us.
John Vianney
#74. We also hate lying because it is more than just fibbing, it is a personal slight. It is the liar's way of saying, "I don't respect you." That is precisely what we tell God when we lie. Lying is our special way of saying to God, "I hate the truth. I hate you.
Todd Friel
#75. Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
#76. If you only trust God when you don't have to, or only when you understand Him, you won't get very far." Edwin
Eric M. Hill
#77. We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.
Beth Moore
#78. During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.
Jerry Falwell
#79. You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.
Carl Lentz
#80. Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
Vance Havner
#81. It's really weird 'cause when you're 21 you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
Kate Winslet
#82. main job is to remain connected to God. When my primary focus is being present with him, everything else has a way of falling into place. When my primary focus becomes anything else, my inner vitality suffers, and I become a lesser version of myself. On vacation one summer,
John Ortberg
#83. I just thank God when I wake up every day.
Cilla Black
#84. Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.
Francis Schaeffer
#85. When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.
Sam Roberts
#86. When we call someone "stranger," we "other" them. When we call someone "refugee" or "immigrant," we forget that we too were strangers in the land of Egypt. That Jesus, our Lord and God, when he was but a child, lived as a refugee too.
Mike Kinman
#87. There ain't no devil there's just god when he's drunk
Tom Waits
#89. Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.
Dwight L. Moody
#90. It is acceptable to God when we use our mouths to bring joy, love, and good to others. It is not acceptable to God when we use our mouths to bring hurt and destruction.
Joyce Meyer
#91. The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
John Calvin
#92. It is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell ...
Jonathan Edwards
#93. Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.
Robyn Schneider
#94. Evidence of true faith is the determination to trust God when that which He allows makes no sense--and is utterly disagreeable.
David P. Ingerson
#95. What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets.
Paul Halmos
#96. It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.
Matthew Henry
#97. When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
Julian Of Norwich
#98. Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. - 3 John 1:5
Gary Chapman
#99. Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God. When we reject inerrancy we put ourselves in judgment over God's word. We claim the right to determine which parts of God's revelation can be trusted and which cannot.
Kevin DeYoung
#100. It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.
Kristin Armstrong
