Picture God Quotes

#1. A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.

Russell Banks

#4. Kate Moss is too skinny. She also looks like she's 11. It's practically illegal to look at her picture. God bless Kate Dillon, but size 14 is just a little too big. Look at me talking, I just lost 28 pounds, so I should have more sympathy, but I don't.

Gary Dell'Abate

#5. I am a firm believer that when a person makes mistakes or fails to see the bigger picture, God will remove opportunities from before them.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#6. Put like that, of course, it seems absurd; and yet the absurdity lies in the attempt to picture God as just like us only a bit bigger and more all-seeing.

N. T. Wright

#7. He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.

Seth Shostak

#9. Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

Beth Moore

#10. He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or he wouldn't know where to begin? Or because he's in awe of his own miracle? That's how I picture him, his mouth slightly agape, his eyes wide in disbelief.

Jon Cohen

#11. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.

Deb Brammer

#12. A clear picture of that which God wants for us is rarely clearly articulated".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#13. The Bible, however, does present a single picture, complex though it is, of at least one human life: the "image of God" that is granted in the creation of Adam and then presented as the created divine power itself, the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.

Ephraim Radner

#14. The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had been given to myth-making, he would have wondered if there could be any more frightening god than one who was simultaneously provider and destroyer.

Aleksandr Voinov

#15. Just as airplane pilots must maintain contact with air traffic control towers, you and I must stay in touch with God - the one who sees the big picture of our lives and who orchestrates everything that involves us. He

Joyce Meyer

#16. You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best - no matter how good - is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.

Ben Carson

#18. I had always owned them to be the Word of God ... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

John Nelson Darby

#19. The dragons live in the casino?
Tee's eyes widened and alarm coursed through her.
My God, it's like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Susannah Scott

#20. Xang Xu, the name read beneath his picture. Wanted for computer fraud and various other cyber crimes. By the freaking FBI and god

Kaylea Cross

#21. We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Tony Dungy

#22. I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. In my head I think, There is a beautiful picture here and by God, short of murder, I'm going to get it. So shut up and hold still! But what I say is: You look wonderful. It'll just take a minute. It's marvelous. We're doing something very special.

John Loengard

#24. If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

C.S. Lewis

#25. God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see the whole picture.

Danny L. Deaube

#26. They talked about God. They had no picture in their minds of some mist steaming upward: rather of strong, skillful hands thrust down to make, and mend, perhaps even to destroy.

C.S. Lewis

#27. Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

Donald Curtis

#28. We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing.

Francine Rivers

#29. God! She was tempted to take a picture of her middle finger and send it back. Her fingers flew across the screen. Heading to first period. Maybe you can do something more useful than texting me.

Brigid Kemmerer

#30. O Word of God incarnate ...
It is the golden casket
Where gems of truth are stored;
It is the heaven-drawn picture
Of Thee, the Living Word.

Walsham How

#31. Oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo?
Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ... book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school."
"Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.

L.A. Weatherly

#32. The sky was almost black. Distant rolling rumbles. Lightning flashed white in the kitchen.

(I had a goofy thought: Did God just take our picture?)

Jerry Spinelli

#33. Author points out how easily non-agricultural people miss the picture of God as all-providing in Psalm 50:10, Word to a people for whom cattle meant plowing and fertilizer as well as meat.

Matt Chandler

#34. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. What if you began to see your art as something other than your idea? What if it was less lofty and more necessary to your daily rhythm? What if your art is part of a bigger picture, part of a daily grace God has in mind for someone else?

Emily P. Freeman

#36. And to know that joy - not just happiness, but true joy - comes when we give up our own agenda and let God work through us. Then we can begin to see the bigger picture, the eternal picture, rather than just the tiny brush stroke of our own lives.

Laura Sobiech

#37. The crucified Jesus is the only accurate picture of God the world has ever seen.

John Austin Baker

#38. In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.

Charles R. Swindoll

#39. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#40. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. It's a vivid picture and a strong warning, and the same response we'll get whenever we try to get our fulfillment from a false god - from anyone or anything apart from the one true God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#41. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#42. If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

Henry Rollins

#43. Take a picture of God, tack it on the wall and see who bows.

Laird Barron

#44. Tim Curry is God. He will distract me.

Nikki Rae

#45. In the global picture of God's plan for your life, the good can be the Enemy of the better. And the better is the foe of the best. Until the good is cleared out of the way, you cannot receive that which is better, and you cannot receive the best until you are willing to let go of the better.

Pedro Okoro

#46. Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

Abraham Maslow

#47. It's breathtaking to picture almighty God saying, "I know Francis Chan. He's my son. I love him!" Are you confident this is what God would say if I asked Him about you? Do you know God or just know about Him? Are

Francis Chan

#48. Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?

Rene Gutteridge

#49. You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Harvey Dunn

#50. Sometimes God's ways are mysterious.
Sometimes He reveals them bit by bit over long periods of time.
Then sometimes they're just plain bizarre, but immediately clear -- picture-perfect.

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

#51. When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

Erich Fromm

#52. The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

Philip Neri

#53. The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

A.W. Tozer

#54. The most indisputable beauty may be the one that people cannot ever touch. That God exists up there somehow, in the peaks and remote lakes and the sharp wind.

Who knows why that picture stirs joy. It speaks directly to our impermanence and our smallness.

Peter Heller

#55. God promises that no matter how dismal the picture, He will take our problem and turn it into an opportunity for our growth.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#56. Each and every prayer is a tiny piece of a great cosmic puzzle, which when fitted together will allow for the completion of the grand picture of the Almighty Lord's plan for humanity and the universe.

Jason Mandryk

#57. We're so worried about the legal details of crossing doctrinal t's and dotting sociopolitical i's that we miss the big picture. The love picture. The one thing Jesus was really clear about: LOVE. If we could just get that one thing down, I believe the details would take care of themselves.

Cathleen Falsani

#58. Our negative thoughts actually and literally cause the blessings to be repelled. If you can picture what you want, and believe that it is on its way, by God's law it must come. Hold on to the belief, and in time you will realize it.

Leslie Householder

#59. Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...

Jerry Bridges

#60. Most marriage problems are not really marriage problems, they are God problems. They can be traced back to one, or both, having a poor relationship with God, or a faulty understanding of him. An accurate picture of God is vital to a healthy marriage. It's vital to everything.

Francis Chan

#61. Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

Stephen Charnock

#62. Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

Lynda Barry

#63. Trembling" (Phil. 2:12). Even knowing that "it is God who works in [us]" (Phil. 2:13), we are our own responsibility. This is a very different picture than many of us are used to. Some individuals see their needs

Henry Cloud

#64. We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Pope Francis

#65. I cannot describe God in the same way that I cannot describe a picture I am holding millimeters from my eyes - the picture is made strange and unknowable not because it is distant but because it is so close.

Lauren F. Winner

#66. To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.

Eric Metaxas

#67. Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket.

Jonathan Tropper

#68. And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#69. I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a tomboy growing up. I recently caught a picture of myself, and I was like, 'God! What was I thinking about?'

Drew Sidora

#70. This picture highlights the way Genesis is not limited to just one situation or set of perspectives. Instead, it is a chorus of different voices, a distillate of ancient Israel's experiences with God over the centuries, wrien in the form of continually adapted stories about beginnings.

Anonymous

#71. The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

Rabindranath Tagore

#72. When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

Erwin McManus

#73. Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing ...

Larry Niven

#74. The Bible doesn't teach you to follow rules. It is a picture of Jesus. While words may tell you what God is like and even what he may want from you, you cannot do any of it on your own. Life and living are in him and in no other.

Wm. Paul Young

#75. I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#76. [God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision ... God has not yet finished with us.

Billy Graham

#77. I'm saying let's demonstrate what Jesus had done in us so the world may see a new way, God's way, Jesus' way the picture of redemption that Jesus has done in us. So Jesus redeems us and we desire to go to the world and demonstrate that so that others can see what redemption looks like.

LeCrae

#78. When he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing - not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.

David Foster Wallace

#79. Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#80. The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

Cornelius Van Til

#81. In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

Stephen Charnock

#82. My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

Gerard Verschuuren

#83. God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, you won't be able to see the whole picture until all the pieces are together.

Danny L. Deaube

#84. To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Vincent Van Gogh

#85. I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Mary Engelbreit

#86. It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

Robert Frost

#87. God's got my picture,' Piper reiterated, 'taped right up there on his big, big, giiinormous fridge.' She smiled. 'Because he's crazy about me. And about you, too.

Candace Calvert

#88. This is one of God's great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever!

Timothy J. Keller

#89. When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Marc Chagall

#90. Yes, she moaned, and then nodded, just in case he didn't get the picture, because if he didn't, dear God, she was going to drown him in the bathtub. And wouldn't that be embarrassing to explain to the police and all the family?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#91. Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been.

Salman Rushdie

#92. God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But ... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

Karen Walker

#93. Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

Victoria Osteen

#94. I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book.

Paula Fox

#95. The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#96. You do not need to work towards being the person that God wants you to be. He has already transformed you through Jesus' death and resurrection. You are the After Picture.

Alex Boxall

#97. The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#98. Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.

John Eldredge

#99. A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

Harry Callahan

#100. God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you.

Max Lucado