Top 100 Meet God Quotes
#1. To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to actually hear God speaking and also to meet God himself.
Timothy J. Keller
#2. The Reverend Chapman wrote later. I think none was afraid to meet God, but we all felt willing to put it off until a more propitious time . . .
David McCullough
#3. I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.
Ruud Gullit
#4. The manna of one day was corrupt when the next day came. I must every day have fresh grace from heaven, and I obtain it only in direct waiting upon God Himself. Begin each day by tarrying before God, and letting Him touch you. Take time to meet God.
Andrew Murray
#5. You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.
Anne Graham Lotz
#6. If you run out on Nellie, what will you say when you meet God?"
George swore, laughed, shook his head. "I'll say 'Just send me on to hell. That's where all my friends are, anyway.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#7. I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.
Henri Nouwen
#8. I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
R.A. Torrey
#9. You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.
Carl Fredrik Wisloff
#10. We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
J.I. Packer
#11. We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#12. What if in the afterlife you did not meet God? Could you still believe in God?
Ross Friedman
#13. Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
Yann Martel
#14. First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#15. When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.
Michael S. Horton
#16. Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.
Peter Kreeft
#17. The person who does not meet God's expectations has no right to expect God's blessings.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say
Ronnie Shakes
#19. Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.
Billy Graham
#20. You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#21. Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.
Billy Graham
#22. You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone
Rees Howells
#23. From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#24. If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.
Jack Hyles
#25. The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.
Stephen Cope
#26. If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
Henri Nouwen
#27. Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
Frederick William Robertson
#28. What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#29. When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
Werner Heisenberg
#30. Act in accordance with your true beliefs by spending your time on those things that will build and develop your character and help you become more Christlike. I hope none of you see life as primarily fun and games but rather as a time 'to prepare to meet God.'
Quentin L. Cook
#31. Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .
Peter Scazzero
#32. 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
#34. People can meet God within their cultural context but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that's what Jesus did in the incarnation and on the cross.
Christena Cleveland
#35. Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
Martin Buber
#36. When you meet God in the story of Jesus. You get swept up into a story of such cosmic drama and beauty that you are forever changed.
J.D. Greear
#37. I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
Robert Breault
#38. 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
#39. Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
Dolly Parton
#40. Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Muhammad
#41. It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
Bono
#42. I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Osama Bin Laden
#43. You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
Austin O'Malley
#44. The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
Martin Buber
#45. It is no light matter to meet God after having denied Him all one's life.
Holly Ordway
#46. Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
Abebe Bikila
#47. Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
Prepare, prepare!
William Blake
#48. If I am secure in God's devotion, then I am free to love others without depending on them to meet my need for love.
Cynthia Heald
#49. How childish is the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be worthy." We
John Calvin
#50. It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.
Brian D. McLaren
#51. I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your brought to life an exceptional human being who God divined my sister. And it was indeed divine. Thank you.
Susan Spencer-Wendel
#52. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)
Stephen Levine
#53. When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
Della Reese
#54. unity does not criticize those who do not run as fast as I do, or those who do not meet my standards. Unity respects every believer where he or she is, and trusts God to lead them without judgment.
John Crowder
#55. In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
Pope John Paul II
#56. I now know that God has a plan for each of us. The thing is to find out what it is. How? Through prayer, through keeping your mind open, and trough the circumstances of daily life and the people you meet.
Peggy Noonan
#58. If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.
John Piper
#59. Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.
Sheldon K. Bass
#60. When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.
Heather Hart
#61. May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
Anonymous
#62. The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God and to an innumerable company.
Alexander MacLaren
#63. When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#64. Jay's large body covered her. Oh God, the welcome weight of him. His mouth descended on hers, not asking, not seeking, but demanding she meet his need. She wrapped her arms around his neck and arched up into him as her tongue darted into his mouth, met his, and mated in a hot, heady tangle.
Kate Kelly
#65. Wesley looked down at her and Nora could barely meet his brown eyes, which bored into her with the fiery love of a guardian angel. God probably had eyes like Wesley's ... anyone who looked into them wanted to immediately apologize for any and all sins ever committed.
Tiffany Reisz
#67. Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.
Paul Gitwaza
#68. They tell you how the demands of this law, which you and I cannot meet, have been met on our behalf, how God Himself becomes a man to save man from the disapproval of God.
C.S. Lewis
#69. It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.
Rabindranath Tagore
#71. Only Christ can meet the deepest needs of our world and our hearts. Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God, peace among men and nations, and peace within our hearts. He transcends the political and social boundaries of our world.
Billy Graham
#73. Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?
St. Vincent
#74. To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not meet the person meant to finance it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'
Gisele Bundchen
#76. The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer; - they sleep, they sit half shadow- high; - with them will we strive!
Henrik Ibsen
#77. When the children of God meet, angels also gather to hear the wisdom of God. So it is the duty of every believer, not to praise earthly men or leaders who come and go, but to praise God the Creator and Christ the Savior, who died for us in the cross.
The Voice Of The Martyrs
#78. The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of his daughters, because only to his daughters has God given the power to be a creator of bodies so that God's design and the great plan might meet fruition.
Dallin H. Oaks
#79. Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#80. THE LIGHT OF GOD SURROUNDS ME. THE LOVE OF GOD PROTECTS ME.
I AM A LIGHT OF GOD'S LOVE EVERYWHERE I GO WITH EVERYONE I MEET.
Catherine Carrigan
#81. God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
Ann Voskamp
#82. Great God of wonders and great provider.
When I had nothing, God alone was more than enough.
God meet every need.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
Henri Nouwen
#84. Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#85. God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
Charles R. Swindoll
#86. Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?'
'Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?
Francesca Zappia
#87. What you do with the God living inside you will determine how you'll meet the God that is above you .
Ikechukwu Joseph
#88. God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.
Bill Johnson
#89. Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#90. When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?
Pope Francis
#91. Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my hand To hold the Ark, although it seem to shake Through th' old sinnes and new doctrines of our land. Onely, since God doth often vessels make Of lowly matter for high uses meet, I throw me at his feet. - George Herbert1
Terryl L. Givens
#92. I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.
Jane Lynch
#93. God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You'll recognize Him and know in your heart of hearts that you're not entering a new sphere, but returning home to the place you've always belonged.
Toni Sorenson
#94. It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
Ramakrishna
#95. Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it ... I awake to I AM here. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. (page 70)
Ann Voskamp
#96. There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good.
J. Vernon McGee
#97. Live where you are so God can meet you at your needs.
Tyler Perry
#98. Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#99. The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
#100. Your spiritual gift occurs where your human passion and God's desires for the world meet.
Rita Collett
