Top 100 God Works Quotes
#1. God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
John Calvin
#2. God's great love and purposes for us are all worked out in messes in our kitchens and backyards, in storms and sins, blue skies, the daily work and dreams of our common lives. God works with us as we are and not as we should be or think we should be.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,
Joyce Meyer
#4. Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.
Max Lucado
#5. God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.
Dawson Trotman
#6. God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.
Colby Buzzell
#7. God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#8. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#9. God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port
Charles Spurgeon
#10. Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#11. God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.
Leonard Sweet
#12. God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.
Thomas Goodwin
#14. When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
Martin Luther
#15. God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
Martin Luther
#16. God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways
Penn Jillette
#17. There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.
Angus Buchan
#18. Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle.
Bruce Wilkinson
#19. One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.
Eugene H. Peterson
#20. They may think they understand how God works, but if were were able to understand how God works, we wouldn't need faith, now would we?
Kirsten Miller
#21. God works with the world as it is in order to bring it to where it can be. Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be. Prayer opens the world to its own transformation.
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
#22. God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
John Newton
#23. I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct
if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#24. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#25. Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
Billy Graham
#26. Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.
Damien Echols
#27. Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.
T. B. Joshua
#28. When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
Gottfried Leibniz
#29. Don't forget what people intend to use for harm, God can use for His greater good. Let offenses slide today, and watch how God works!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#30. It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.
Charles Spurgeon
#31. Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen
#32. We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
Martin Luther
#33. God works within a broken system to gradually improve it until it's eventually done away with.
Preston Sprinkle
#34. It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.
David Jeremiah
#35. God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he uses anonymous people.
Khaled Talib
#36. God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.
Stephen Colbert
#37. No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
Meister Eckhart
#38. I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.
Davone Bess
#39. Sometimes, if you're lucky, the biggest hardship can lead to your greatest blessing. It just takes time to see that God works in mysterious ways.
Penelope Ward
#40. If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
Adam Hamilton
#41. Because of the gospel
the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners
mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.
Gloria Furman
#42. There are many streams of cleansing-beginning with the Blood of Jesus! I want us to study and experience them all, as God works among us to free, heal, and mature His people!
Jack W. Hayford
#43. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
Hudson Taylor
#44. We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. [ Romans 8:28
Max Lucado
#45. God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?
Margaret Atwood
#46. We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." And "he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Philip Yancey
#47. I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
Joel Osteen
#48. Your praying and your preaching should be of the same length. You don't want to find yourself limping, with one leg shorter than the other. God works as a result of prayer and faithfulness, not technique and cleverness. But
N. T. Wright
#49. God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.
Jonah Books
#50. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
#51. God works in the inside of you with what you feed yourself with
Sunday Adelaja
#52. When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.
Jason Gray
#53. If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control and manipulate others "for their own good," knowing full well that this is not how God works among His people. - The Signature of Jesus
Brennan Manning
#54. The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
T. S. Eliot
#55. It always amazes me how people are placed in our lives at exactly the right times. That's how God works, that's how he takes care of his children.
Amy Harmon
#56. Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
Oswald Chambers
#57. God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Never will I be satisfied until God works in convicting power and men and women weep their way to the cross. . . . Oh that He would break me down and cause me to weep for the salvation of souls.
Alvin L. Reid
#59. A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
Jakob Bohme
#60. God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
Charles Spurgeon
#61. This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
David Platt
#62. God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.
Joseph Fort Newton
#64. In all things God works for the good of those who love Him.
Anonymous
#65. I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.
Wayne Dyer
#66. I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?
Daniel C. Dennett
#67. The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There's nothing mysterious about his ways. They're premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.
Melina Marchetta
#68. If you're not aligned with God, it's hard to recognize yourself as being of God. The way that you get aligned with God is by being like God, being like Source, being like energy. That means understanding how God works.
Wayne Dyer
#69. God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.
Paul Goodman
#70. God works all things together for good. You were created for a purpose. God has a plan for your life.
Renee Swope
#71. God works through life, through people, and through physical, tangible, and material reality to communicate his healing presence in our lives.
Robert E. Webber
#72. Love is the knot you tie in your proverbial rope, to hang on to while God works out His will in your life. You were born to be a blessing.
Charlotte Hubbard
#73. That's the way God works-one small key opens a big door.
Frank Marzullo
#74. Mark, Reader, my cry! Bend thy thoughts on the Sky,
And in midst of prosperity, know thou may'st die.
While the great Loom of God works in darkness above,
And our trials here below are but threads of His Love.
Thomas Pynchon
#76. The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved
Charles Spurgeon
#77. Abiding and obeying gives our lives purpose because it is in the midst of these activities that God works in and through us to do His work.
Wendy Blight
#78. As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.
Joyce Meyer
#79. On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
William James
#80. God works in different ways and it shows ...
And everybody knows, love comes and goes.
Ed O.G.
#81. God works as he chooses - we have our tests and He has His revelations
Susan Fletcher
#82. The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#83. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.
Nia Long
#84. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#85. In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.
Warren Beatty
#87. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#88. Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Charles Caleb Colton
#89. When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#90. I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
Mark Twain
#91. The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
Martin Luther
#92. God needs to bless the works of our hands, but you still need to do some work for God to bless it
Sunday Adelaja
#93. This rebel would but toss his head, and men,slaves,horses, towers ... all the accursed levels above him ... would come tumbling down. God always works in this way. Deep in the foundations of wrong he buries the small despised cry of justice.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#94. 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
#95. Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.
Frederic Bastiat
#96. God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
Charles Caleb Colton
#97. If God created us to do good works of eternal significance, he would not create us ill-prepared for those tasks.
Christine Caine
#98. Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.
Richard Blackaby
#99. Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."
God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up.
The Skit Guys
#100. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.
Donna Lynn Hope
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