Top 100 Only God Quotes
#1. Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
Garrison Keillor
#3. Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.
Pope Francis
#4. In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
Bill Bowerman
#6. You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
Rick Warren
#7. It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Monica Johnson
#9. Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
Munia Khan
#10. God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
Martin Luther
#11. God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
A.W. Tozer
#12. God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#13. Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
Henri Matisse
#14. God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves. - A.W. TOZER
R. Mark Dillon
#15. Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.
Karen Witemeyer
#16. As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
Neal A. Maxwell
#17. The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
John Shimkus
#18. Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.
James MacDonald
#19. Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
Adyashanti
#20. Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.
Beth Nimmo
#21. Your hope doesn't come from within-not in the sense of self, anyway. It comes from God alone. If not, then it will crumble and blow as dust to the wind. You have only to fix your sights on Jesus.
Tracie Peterson
#22. 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
#23. People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
Timothy Keller
#24. India, the new myth
a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Salman Rushdie
#25. The only way of living acceptably to God was not to surpass worldly morality in monastic asceticism, but solely through the fulfillment of the obligations imposed upon the individual by his position in the world. That was his calling.
Max Weber
#26. 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
#27. The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
Jerome Cady
#28. But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.
Charles L. Allen
#29. If [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. 18 Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, m because he has not believed in the name n of the One and Only Son o of God.
Anonymous
#31. Right now, God is inviting you to live for his glory by fulfilling the purposes he made you for. It's really the only way to live. Everything else is just existing.
Rick Warren
#32. If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
Thomas Keating
#35. To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
Matthew Arnold
#36. The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.
Mike Bickle
#37. God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.
Billy Graham
#38. Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
Leonard Cohen
#39. Traditionally, people are always supposed to feel empty, devastated, when a god leaves them. Nobody seems to wonder how the god might feel. Leaving the only people who almost understood.
Peter S. Beagle
#40. 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
#41. May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.
Billy Graham
#42. We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
Leo Tolstoy
#43. See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
John Muir
#44. If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.
Max Lucado
#45. But if you're not knowledgeable in God's Word, you have nothing to fight with, and the only way to arm yourself against evil and the adversary is to know His Word and use it!
K.J. Masters
#46. The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#47. The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.
Eric Ludy
#48. I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Albert Camus
#49. Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.
Thomas A Kempis
#50. Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
John Barton
#51. Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.
R.C. Sproul
#52. The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.
Matt Chandler
#53. But the truth is God has not told us His arrangement about the other people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him.
C.S. Lewis
#54. Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.
Pope Francis
#55. Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#56. A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.
Jan Guillou
#57. God has given you a mission in life, and only you can fulfill it.
Rick Warren
#58. Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge
#60. The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.
George V. Higgins
#61. Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God.
A.W. Tozer
#62. If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.
Friedrich Frobel
#63. Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.
Jerome Lejeune
#64. God is not an ascetic, otherwise there would be no flowers, there would be no green trees, only deserts. God is not an ascetic, otherwise there would be no song in life, no dance in life - only cemeteries and cemeteries. God is not an ascetic; God enjoys life.
Osho
#65. Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.
Monica Johnson
#66. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.
James Bryant Conant
#67. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#68. We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
Wernher Von Braun
#69. Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
#71. Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#72. The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.
Dusty Baker
#73. Your soul is who you are in God and who God is in you. You can never really lose your soul; you can only fail to realize it, which is indeed the greatest of losses: to have it but not have it (Matthew 16:26).
Richard Rohr
#74. Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr
#76. New Testament writers do not tell me why God chose to save me. They only tell me to be thankful that He did.
J.I. Packer
#77. Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Brother Lawrence
#78. I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.
Beatrice Sparks
#79. The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank
#80. It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
Richard Rohr
#81. Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
Meister Eckhart
#82. They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
Francis Collins
#84. A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
John Ruskin
#85. I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones
David Jenkins
#86. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.
Oswald Chambers
#87. We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God's plans.
Sunday Adelaja
#88. If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#89. It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him
Sunday Adelaja
#90. God picked you up, saved you and redeemed you, not only because He needs you, but because this present generation also needs you. You represent hope to several thousands of people.
Sunday Adelaja
#91. So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Stephen Hawking
#92. But in the end, people's opinions will be irrelevant; when we stand before God, only his opinion will matter.
Kenneth D. Boa
#93. God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
Rajneesh
#94. If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You're only a decision away from reconnecting.
Anne Graham Lotz
#95. For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no desires. Statues stand for nothing but the goals of the rulers. ... The word of a god is, in truth, only the word of the one who erected his statue.
Kai Meyer
#96. Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
Therese Of Lisieux
#97. Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
Abbi Glines
#98. Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy. I sometimes imagine God only knows what, that everyone is laughing at me, the entire world, and at such moments, at such moments I am quiet simply ready to annihilate the entire order of things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. Turn your cheek' only works with physical slaps, only works pre-Second coming. Against guns, bombs, and the most inhumane practices ever conceived, we must protect ourselves. We must become the agents of God's vengeance.
Peter Tieryas
#100. Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.
John Rogers Searle
