Is God Real Quotes

#1. All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

Ted Dekker

#2. That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

Sinead O'Connor

#3. If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere

Timothy Keller

#4. God is as real as a station wagon.

Peggy Payne

#5. 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

#6. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#7. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

James Clavell

#8. A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

Catherine Booth

#9. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.

Patricia Luce Chapman

#10. The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other's lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder's of God's presence.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#11. Those who begin below, as so many do today, assume that God's love is whispered first in their inner senses, that it is part of their nature, that it is part of creation. And they assume that it becomes real to them when they experience its therapeutic benefits.

David F. Wells

#12. Dear Homeschool Mom, You've got this! God called you to it, and He will see you through it. Inhale Grace. Exhale Doubt.

Tamara L. Chilver

#13. My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

Pattie Mallette

#14. The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#15. should only obey God when we feel like it; only that preaching Christianity primarily as a set of new behaviors will create people who act right without ever loving the right.1 This creates hypocrites, weary and resentful of God. What Is "Real" Spiritual Growth?

J.D. Greear

#16. The real reason for grounding ourselves in the truth that we are made for more is "so that you may know him better." The more we operate in the truth of who we are and the reality that we were made for more, the closer to God we'll become.

Lysa TerKeurst

#17. I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

Eric Close

#18. The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

Oswald Chambers

#19. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.

Robert C. Shannon

#20. We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

Pope Francis

#21. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.

Frank Sinatra

#22. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.

Oswald Chambers

#23. No, your worst sin does not consist in what you did to your husband that day; rather it lies in your discontent with God's special creatures, with your fellow men. For this reason you can experience no real happiness....That is a grievous sin, Beret Holm!

O.E. Rolvaag

#24. Our God and His world is way more real than this world.

Karen Wheaton

#25. This is the only real revelation - that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Philip Appleman

#26. The real you is on the side of God against the false self

John Eldredge

#27. Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ...

Tad Williams

#29. We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. Real peace is not only the absence of war but the presence of God .

Osunsakin Adewale

#31. If God's masons built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to destroy them. But instead of walls all I see is backdrops, sets. And sets are made to be destroyed.

Milan Kundera

#32. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?

Oscar A. Romero

#33. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's "real life" is a phantom of one's own imagination.

Tim Challies

#34. True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

#35. The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

Oswald Chambers

#36. Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs.

Scott J. Hafemann

#37. That it is not the Christianity of the New Testament which is in conflict with science, but the supposed Christianity of the modern liberal Church, and that the real city of God, and that city alone, has defences which are capable of warding off the assaults of modern unbelief. However,

J. Gresham Machen

#38. Yes, God is real.

Tyler Perry

#39. God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Oswald Chambers

#40. The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

Tony Evans

#41. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.

Zarina Bibi

#42. I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

Dyan Cannon

#43. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!

Norman Whaler

#44. And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Salvador Dali

#45. We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again
in both realities ... If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here.

Ted Dekker

#46. And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

Frederick Buechner

#47. There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Ronald Reagan

#48. Truth Is ... We All Search For LOVE In Our Lives That Will Last. Often It Doesn't And Send Us In Despair. Real Unfailing LOVE Comes From The Heavens Above. No Matter What Your religion Is ... We Are All Taught That God's LOVE Is Perfect, Undying And Last Forever!

Timothy Pina

#49. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Swami Vivekananda

#50. The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer of the text knows that God is the end toward which he is moving, then that man has real faith.

A.W. Tozer

#51. God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

Joyce Cary

#52. There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#53. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Elizabeth George

#54. The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Henry Ward Beecher

#55. Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.

Henry B. Eyring

#57. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. The birth of Jesus is a birth with a message. It takes the entire Bible to bring the complete message, but this birth is the core of it: In Jesus, God is here to give us life, real life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#59. Sometimes," Shearl said, "people need to be reminded that God is real.

Crystal McVea

#60. I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

Ken Hensley

#61. Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation.

William Henry Channing

#62. If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.

Lemmy Kilmister

#63. Real success is to understand why you were made and to know what your calling is - Only God can correctly tell another person what his true purpose in life is

Sunday Adelaja

#64. I'm not sure if the Bible is a real book written by God or just a collection of stories for people who need help putting their hearts back together, but it's comforting, and I try not to think about it.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#65. I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos

#66. The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God's people principles of economic empowerment

Sunday Adelaja

#67. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Charles Bent

#68. God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

Meher Baba

#69. I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

Buck Brannaman

#70. You can't know what God's purpose is for the things that have happened until you see the end. It's like the end of a good story, miss. Everything looks real bad until you get to the last chapter.

MaryLu Tyndall

#71. While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#72. Real life, however, begins when I die to the false god that is me.

John Ortberg

#73. The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

Oswald Chambers

#74. Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

Francis Lieber

#75. Remind yourself of that when feelings of loneliness and despair come over you. Remember, those are just feelings. They are not real, but God's love is so real that He created you to prove it. It

Nick Vujicic

#76. It's interesting how God arranges your schedule. When you're helping someone else, you never run out of time, when you're just interested in helping yourself, time is real short.

Cathy Hughes

#77. The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

Thomas Merton

#78. In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

Neal A. Maxwell

#79. Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

Monica Johnson

#80. Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him.

Arthur W. Pink

#81. The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

Pope Benedict XVI

#82. It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.

Pope Paul VI

#83. The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

C.S. Lewis

#84. A quiet disposition and a heart giving thanks at any given moment is the real test of the extent to which we love God at that moment.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#85. God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

#86. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#87. Real hope is grounded in reality, and the ultimate truth of reality is that we are loved by a busy God - One who never stops working in us.

Michael Kelley

#88. If it is an impossibility, it is the thing we have to ask. If it is not an impossible thing, it is not a real disturbance. God will do the absolutely impossible.

Oswald Chambers

#89. For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#90. The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

J. Oswald Sanders

#91. The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.

Rowan Williams

#92. Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

John Tillotson

#93. If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

J. Sidlow Baxter

#94. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul

Oswald Chambers

#95. Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Jean Anouilh

#96. The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

Alan Cohen

#97. Giving is God's way. It is the way that I now understand is the truth of the Universe. Giving multiplies me and makes me feel complete and fulfilled. Giving makes me feel that I make a real and important difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

#98. Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

Michael W. Smith

#99. Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#100. Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Ann Voskamp