Top 100 Not God Quotes
#1. I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
Raymond Pettibon
#2. Would it be worth it to pick up my cross and be crucified next to Jesus? If He is not God, then, no. Lose everything I love to worship a false God? A million times over, no!
But if He is God, then yes. Being forever bonded to my Lord by suffering alongside Him? A million times over, yes!
Nabeel Qureshi
#3. T-shirt with the slogan Officer, I Swear to Drunk I'm Not God.
Paul Levine
#5. Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23
Jurgen Moltmann
#6. It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.
Louie Giglio
#7. How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.
John Bevere
#8. We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
Carl F. H. Henry
#9. What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
Euripides
#10. Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not part of the plan." I
Ted Dekker
#12. since humans are made for the life that comes from God and God alone, to worship that which is not God is to fall in love with death. Here
N. T. Wright
#13. Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
Henry Cloud
#14. Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God - that is, if you are human - your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.
John Piper
#15. Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Scott Hancock
#16. There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#17. Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
Hannah More
#18. You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
J.K. Rowling
#19. Do not God's visitations unnerve us? But why? Because He never comes to us without asking us to do something. We never know what He will ask of us, but we know that we will be overwhelmed by our feelings of inadequacy
Calvin Miller
#20. We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.
Harold S. Kushner
#22. It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
John Henry Newman
#23. If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
#24. Some things never change. Not the ABC's, not the multiplication tables, not God!
Billy Graham
#25. Invited or not, God is present.
Carl Jung
#26. Hope deprives us of everything that is not God, in order that all things may serve their true purpose as means to bring us to God.
Thomas Merton
#27. No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
Doron Zeilberger
#29. Churches need to realize that they are houses OF God - and that they are NOT God.
Christina Engela
#30. 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
#31. One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.
Anthony Robbins
#32. It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
Carl Linnaeus
#33. I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
Isobel Miller Kuhn
#34. Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.
Tony Evans
#35. Admitting we are not God - not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things - doesn't belittle us; it frees us.
Louie Giglio
#36. Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.
Edward John Carnell
#37. The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.
Peter J. Gomes
#38. But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.
Ronald Perelman
#39. Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.
Johannes Kepler
#40. He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.
Satoshi Kon
#41. Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.
Poemen
#42. Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
R.C. Sproul
#43.
I'm not God.
Then find someone who is, man.
Colum McCann
#44. God designed us to be worshipers. Everything we do is the product of worship. We are always giving our hearts to something, and if it's not God, it's something God created. All
Paul David Tripp
#45. It is man who has abandoned God, not God who has abandoned man.
Angelia Griffin
#46. Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.
John Calvin
#47. I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
Allen Ginsberg
#48. It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.
Thea Harris
#50. Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.
John Bradshaw
#51. Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.
Darrin Patrick
#52. It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse.
Peter Kreeft
#53. I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.
Blaise Pascal
#55. Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?" "You
Alexandre Dumas
#56. He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!
Stephen King
#57. He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
Simone Weil
#58. Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#59. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come within.
Thomas Hardy
#60. It is so easy to have problems with people when you are not God's will.
Paul Gitwaza
#61. In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#62. Let me be clear that I'm not God so I can't tell you who is and isn't going to heaven. What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer, I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
Alan Chambers
#63. Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
John Piper
#64. Redemption, salvation, and restoration are not God's ultimate goal. These He performs for the sake of something greater: namely, the enjoyment He has in glorifying Himself.
John Piper
#65. The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
Anton Chekhov
#66. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
#67. The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.
Rajneesh
#68. Man is not God but hath God's end to serve, A master to obey, a course to take, Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Grant this, then man must pass from old to new, From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what once seemed good, to what now proves best. - Robert Browning
Oswald Chambers
#69. It is not God's power that is lacking to accomplish the redemption of nations
Sunday Adelaja
#71. If God and Christ were equal then Christ should be called God's brother, not God's Son.
Arius
#73. The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
R.C. Sproul
#74. When men do what is displeasing to God, they perform their own will, not God's.
Augustine Of Hippo
#75. If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?
Robert Breault
#76. Do not simply know God according to what He does, but know Him according to what He is. Whether or not God does something for us means nothing.
Witness Lee
#77. To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe
Charles Spurgeon
#78. The water was not God. The water undulating slightly with the waves unformed was not spiritual. It was jagged cold water and it felt perfect when we put our hands into it, and it kissed out palms again and again, would never stop kissing our palms - and why wasn't that enough?
Dave Eggers
#79. If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.
Jim George
#80. Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Haile Selassie
#82. If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.
Martin Luther
#83. If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#84. If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God's chosen people.
Martin Luther
#86. If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found.
Thomas Merton
#87. It does not matter the evil you have experienced in your life, it is not God's plan for you to be unhappy
Sunday Adelaja
#88. No one could tell me not to eat an entire cake - not my mom, not Santa, not God - no one. It was my cake and everyone else could go fuck themselves.
Allie Brosh
#89. Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!
Flannery O'Connor
#90. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.
Lewis Mumford
#91. If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.
David Hume
#92. People make the rules of society, not God.
V.C. Andrews
#94. Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#95. This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
Gary Sheffield
#96. Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole
#97. I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.
Josh Homme
#98. I am not God, and I am not judge. Your fate is your own And you need not to budge.
Brian M. Boyce
#99. I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.
Mehmet Ali Agca
