Losing God Quotes

#1. Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#2. If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

Rick Riordan

#3. You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

Nancy Pelosi

#4. So you're lost, uh? Happens a lot out here. You walk around for days, seeing things, losing your bearings, crying out for God, But He can't hear you. You can scream and scream but nobody'll ever hear you.

Craig Davidson

#5. Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.

Squire Rushnell

#6. How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.

Cora Carmack

#8. On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

Tim Tebow

#9. Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming"; "Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

Puggy Pearson

#10. I have not been called
to the wisdom of this world,
but to a God who's calling out to me
And even though the world may think
I'm losing touch with reality,
it would be crazy
to choose this world over eternity.

MercyMe

#11. Still, shifting my thinking on the Bible did not mean I was losing my faith in God. In fact, I had the growing sense that God was inviting me down this path, encouraging it even.

Peter Enns

#12. When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

Hamilton Leithauser

#13. The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not losing is itself a gain. The way to retain what he possesses is to engage it.

Watchman Nee

#14. I think the church is failing today not because of lost of gospel but because of lost of focus. You start losing focus when you stop caring about what God cares about. When you lose focus, God will no longer back you in your endeavour.

Patience Johnson

#15. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Baal Shem Tov

#16. Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

Evander Holyfield

#17. True, there was a vague assumption that doing so would bring me closer to God, but then who was God when he was at home? And why did he keep losing it with his chosen people, when he could easily have changed his mind, and picked a more co-operative bunch?

John Cleese

#18. When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

C.S. Lewis

#19. One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

Bill Johnson

#20. Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

Brian D. McLaren

#21. If you feel that the level of your fervency is getting low and that God's fire in you is going out, then know that you are losing the anointing.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.

Cora Carmack

#23. The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word.

A.W. Tozer

#24. I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.

John Green

#25. In her career, she'd closed multi-million dollar deals without a hint of nerves. Now she needed a jumbo-sized bottle of antacids just to get out of her car. Or a double shot of whiskey. God, she was losing it.

Avery Flynn

#26. Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.

Carolyn Jewel

#27. We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

Iyad Allawi

#28. I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#29. Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Rita Schiano

#30. People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Frederick Lenz

#31. God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

Mother Teresa

#32. Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up.

Sophie Kinsella

#33. We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

Anna Akhmatova

#34. Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Teresa Of Avila

#35. Is it not time I lost a few things when I care for them so unreasonably? This losing of things is of the mercy of God: It comes to teach us to let them go.

George MacDonald

#36. Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

Swami Vivekananda

#37. Finding things and losing things is what the Bible is all about. God even seemed to encourage it. He talked about losing your job, or even your life, if you want to find it. He talked about losing your status to find real power.

Bob Goff

#38. The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

G.K. Chesterton

#39. Many have never risked losing the normalcy of their daily existence to gain the astonishing experience of having to see God come through or die.

Murray Pura

#40. It seems to me that religion is losing momentum and God is making a comeback.

Steve Maraboli

#41. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

#42. There is only one thing worse than losing the one you love, and that is losing them without knowing why. If you are a dog, then your master is like a god to you, and the pain of losing him is greater still.

Louis De Bernieres

#43. The world of atheism was cracking apart for me, just as once the world of Catholic faith had cracked apart. I was losing my faith in the nonexistence of God.

Anne Rice

#44. Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

Joyce Johnson

#45. When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

Joe Perry

#46. It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

H.L. Mencken

#47. When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#48. there is a thin line between losing yourself in God and losing your mind. Two

Elif Shafak

#49. More often than not it's this fear of losing people and this attempt to keep people in the church that causes pastors to neglect seeking the presence of God

Sunday Adelaja

#50. That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

Joe Calzaghe

#51. They say there is a thin line between losing yourself in God and losing your mind.

Elif Shafak

#52. Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

Nicola Yoon

#53. But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

Marat Safin

#54. God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#55. When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.

Christopher Moore

#56. A mind centered on the truth of God is the key to being sustained and not losing heart.

David Jeremiah

#57. Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope

#58. See the light in losing your employment

Sunday Adelaja

#59. We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

Richard Dawkins

#60. Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).

Daniel Hochhalter

#61. God is a sore loser. Me and him made a bet, and when he lost, he refused to pay up.

Lionel Suggs

#62. No amount of money can compensate losing your purpose

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#63. If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. And I'm troubled by the fact that women in our culture are congratulated most for losing weight.

Leonard Nimoy

#64. Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Andy Stanley

#65. God willing, we shall this day meet that old enemy
Who has give us so many a good beating.
Thank God we have a cause worth fighting for,
And a cause worth losing and a good song to sing.

John Gould Fletcher

#66. It isn't God, Matthew,I said. The destruction, losing Gary. It's humans alone that have the power to destroy. I don't know why God didn't plan it differently, but that's the way it is. Maybe he just has too much faith in us.

Anne C. Voorhoeve

#67. Only by using faith are we kept from practically losing it, and, on the contrary, to use faith is to lose the unbelief that hinders God's mighty acts.

George Muller

#68. Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Criss Jami

#69. I don't like to lose-at anything ... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Serena Williams

#70. You don't have to sit there and keep losing valuable years of life with a man who's not right for you...You have to keep moving forward and believe that God has the right person for you...the right person to give you strength and encouragement to keep you jumping toward your dreams.

Steve Harvey

#71. A marriage only works if one opens to exactly that which one would never ask for otherwise. Only through rubbing oneself sore and losing oneself is one able to learn about oneself, God, and the world. Like every soteriological pathway, that of marriage is hard and painful.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#72. You always bring God into arguments you know you're losing, for the liar is lonely, and welcomes all manner of company.

Patrick DeWitt

#73. I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.

Glenn Beck

#74. You will be tempted to lose hope, but always remember that God is with you and if there seems to be no hope, He is your hope.

Therese May

#75. It does not take a great deal of imagination or courage to believe that God is on your side when you are prospering or winning; it takes a great deal of courage and imagination to believe that God is on your side when you are suffering or losing.

Peter J. Gomes

#76. One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

Meek Mill

#77. There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.

Dwight L. Moody

#78. People whom live in a world dominated by science and technology are losing belief in God and turning away from religion. Science eliminated the traditions that formerly made living an art form including the rain celebration of spring and traditional harvest festivals.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#79. Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God,
trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

Mother Teresa

#80. Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.

Tracy K. Smith

#81. Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny

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