Top 100 On God Quotes
#1. Waiting on God isn't wasting time; it's training time. Whether
Wendy Pope
#2. Turning to God shouldn't be a last resort; we should look to him for help each day. This isn't to say life will always be easy. There will be struggles, but God will give us the strength to live through them. Don't wait until you're at the end of your rope. Call on God first in every situation.
Anonymous
#3. Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?
Lysa TerKeurst
#4. The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
C.S. Lewis
#5. The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#6. Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
Craig Groeschel
#7. That was about as effective as blaming it on God, and as practical, too. You couldn't get a lawyer to sue either of them.
George Alec Effinger
#8. The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.
Jim George
#9. I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
Charles Spurgeon
#10. If you don't hold out on God, I can promise you this: God will not hold out on you. But it's all or nothing.
Mark Batterson
#12. The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
Martin Luther
#13. It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#14. World vision is getting on your heart what has always been on God's heart.
Dawson Trotman
#15. When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
Joel Osteen
#16. Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.
Brother Lawrence
#17. Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through.
Louise Erdrich
#18. World missions was on God's mind from the beginning.
Dave Davidson
#19. Don't ever settle for something short of amazing in whatever you do in your life - there are a myriad of paths and choices to be made. Seek out the signs that speak to your heart and follow them. Then rely on God to protect you the rest of the journey.
Sieni A.M.
#20. Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#21. What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.
Ken Ham
#22. Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.
Steve Farrar
#23. I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
Jim Caviezel
#24. Aye, without a doubt, he adored her. He would protect her and love her until he took his last breath on God's beautiful earth. What more could a woman ask for in a man? Strength, honor, good looks were a welcome change to the men she'd known before the
Suzan Tisdale
#25. The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.
Wesley L. Duewel
#26. Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.
Michael Chabon
#27. The followers of Jesus will begin to demonstrate a new set of horizons for human life to their neighbors and even to their enemies - the horizons of shalom, the horizons of true humanity living in dependence on God.
Andy Crouch
#28. You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.
Bruce Feiler
#29. We pray because we are unworthy to pray. Our prayers are heard precisely because we believe that we are unworthy. We become worthy to pray when we risk everything on God's faithfulness alone.
Martin Luther
#30. Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
Martin Luther
#31. Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#32. Only a strong faith - a faith based on God's Word - will protect us from temptation and doubt.
Billy Graham
#33. It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.
Brad Stine
#34. Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness
Miguel De Molinos
#35. We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.
Saint Basil
#36. Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
William Blake
#37. As people become more dependent on God, their capacity for ambition and action increases. Dependency doesn't breed passivity; it breeds energy and accomplishment.
David Brooks
#38. As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited ... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#39. Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
William Barclay
#40. You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God ... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.
Troy Polamalu
#41. You can count on God's faithfulness even when you are unfaithful.
Jim George
#42. Forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really? A quick check to see
Lysa TerKeurst
#43. For the Reformation is nothing other than Augustianianism come to its rights: the turning away from all that is human to rest on God alone for salvation.
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
#44. God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve is summed up in what they could do for God that nothing else in the whole creation could do. They had an exclusive on God shared by no other of God's creation.
A.W. Tozer
#45. When you concentrate on God, you can actually enjoy his gifts in a meaningful way. But when you pursue just the gifts themselves, they become the product of despair rather than joy.
Jefferson Bethke
#47. To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.
Jim George
#48. You have to be the nourishment for other people's souls until they learn to feed on God. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#49. Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.
Tom Nelson
#50. If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller
#51. In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
George Whitefield
#54. keeping our focus on God instead of the world around us will enable us to endure the trials of life much better than if we get distracted from God." "Hmm, a good topic." She gave him a small smile. "It kind of fits our situation,
E.A. West
#55. Our attention should be concentrated on God, instead of on what we wear.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.
Cliff Richard
#58. We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.
Joe Lieberman
#59. In the midst of Our great grief,' announced Alexander III, 'the voice of God bids Us to stand staunchly for government relying on God's design with faith in the truth of autocratic power.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#60. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
Bob Marley
#61. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
Various
#62. Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.
Douglas Adams
#63. Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
Oswald Chambers
#64. fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.
John Bevere
#65. Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.
Jack Hyles
#66. I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
Tony Dungy
#67. Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.
John Salmons
#68. Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.
Philippa Gregory
#69. By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
Saint Francis De Sales
#70. Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.
John Hancock
#71. For the worthy there are many rewards on God's earth, but God has specially reserved love for the unworthy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#72. Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.
Russell Conwell
#73. Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
Timothy Keller
#75. we cannot focus on God and on ourselves and our presumed rights and privileges at the same time.
Marguerite Shuster
#76. By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.
Lloyd D. Newell
#77. But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.
Shane Claiborne
#78. Don't count too much on God," said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son's optimism. "He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels.
Boris Akunin
#79. Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.
Garrison Keillor
#80. Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
#81. There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.
Oswald Chambers
#82. Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
Amy Carmichael
#83. Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.
Bill Johnson
#84. There is some prophecy, however, that is unconditional. It depends solely on God himself for fulfillment. Normally it relates to the overview of his plans and purposes for mankind as a whole.
Graham Cooke
#85. The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.
Peter Kreeft
#86. God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
John Hagee
#87. Prayer that focuses on self is always hypocritical because every true prayer focuses on God.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#88. The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
Daniel Boone
#89. If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.
Sri Chinmoy
#90. The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
Richard M. DeVos
#91. It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us.
A.W. Tozer
#92. We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
#93. Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
Janice Macleod
#94. "The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.
Robert Jeffress
#95. 297. We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles
Sunday Adelaja
#96. It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most ... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
C.S. Lewis
#97. God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#98. We can conquer anything if we can stick on God's love because His love can not be conquered by anything.
Euginia Herlihy
#99. When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
John Calvin
#100. It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will.
Rae Carson
