Popular God Quotes

#1. Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he'd picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.

Rick Riordan

#2. Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.

Debasish Mridha

#3. The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

Leonard Ravenhill

#4. There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Mark Twain

#5. I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

Yo Gotti

#6. Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Charles Studd

#7. I'm from Texas ... the bigger the hair, the closer to God!

Lilly Ghalichi

#8. Perhaps the dominant myth in the evangelical church today is that the success of Christianity depends on how popular it is, and that the kingdom of God and the glory of Christ somehow advance on the back of public favor.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#9. God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

Max Lucado

#10. This isn't a very popular idea in the American church, where we separate our love for God from our service to God. We say we love God most, but it's a vague statement that yields little action.

Francis Chan

#11. Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

Joyce Meyer

#13. By popular demand a king had been appointed, but if Israel thought that he would solve all their problems by leading them to conquests without reference to God's law, they were quite wrong.

Joyce G. Baldwin

#14. Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works.

Anonymous

#16. Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

Tullian Tchividjian

#17. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!

Dr. Todd M. Fink

#18. I would thank God, but I don't believe in it ... It's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything ... All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

Eddie Vedder

#19. My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: The people are my God.

Kim Il-sung

#20. A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.

Bill Maher

#21. When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#22. Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!

Steven Morrissey

#23. There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Norman Mailer

#24. We are not beautiful because we fit the popular ideal of beauty, and we are not ugly or unattractive because we don't measure up. Our beauty as human beings is not derived from ourselves. It comes from a beautiful God.

Carolyn Mahaney

#25. Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.

Francis Chan

#26. Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

John Piper

#28. I like the way Chee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach, because there is a frickin' reason why Santa Claus is more popular than Jesus nowadays.

Matthew Quick

#29. The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. In contrast to the 'Europeanism' and the 'popular foundations' of his brothers, he seems to represent ingenuous Russia - oh, not all, not all, and God forbid it should be all! Yet she is here, our dear mother Russia, we can smell her, we can hear her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#32. Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Charles Stanley

#33. We need to be very careful to go to the pages of the Scripture to learn about God's will and the leading of the Spirit, and not simply to listen to the popular teachings of the Christian subculture in which we live.

R.C. Sproul

#34. Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists
especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.

Taner Edis

#35. The God of popular religion is not holy.

R.C. Sproul

#36. Our Heavenly Father did not form us and place us on this planet so that we would manage on our own. Neither does the popular saying, God helps those who help themselves, hold any water. The Truth is we all need help. Those who look strong and contained on the outside may not be so on the inside.

Eve Juurik

#37. Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.

David Berg

#38. Easy
to be delighted
or dismayed by POPULAR CULTURE
but then one has no other option and even
'God, it's so dreadful we watch it because it can't help
being funny' is
to be delighted.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#39. Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.

Richard Corliss

#40. Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter.

Dan Barker

#41. Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

John Lennon

#42. Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

George Watsky

#43. Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'

Victoria Osteen