Top 100 Quotes About But God
#1. Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.
Dillon Burroughs
#2. The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
Jessamyn West
#3. God sees the giants looming over you. It doesn't look like anything good could come from your situation, but God can use anything for His glory.
Jennifer Jackson Linck
#4. 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
#5. What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?
Swami Vivekananda
#6. Man may pat me on the back in celebration of my actions, but God's eyes are piercing into the hidden place of my motivations. He cannot be fooled.
Anna Blanc
#7. As they lifted off, Aaron watched the white, puffy clouds and thought, "I'm going to die here. This is it." But God had a lot more for this child of mine, more than he could have ever imagined...
Diana Mankin Phelps
#10. Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn't moving mountains, but God is for him.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!
Marguerite Wilkinson
#13. He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Saint Augustine
#14. What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.
Fred Rogers
#15. No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories.
J'aiti
#16. The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
Rick Warren
#17. And they schemed but God also schemed and God is the Best of Schemers.
Anonymous
#18. Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. There aren't many sure things in this world. But God's love and goodness are something we can absolutely count on to be there with us . . . to follow us.
Lysa TerKeurst
#22. We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.
Muhammad Ali
#23. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom. 5:8).
Charles F. Stanley
#24. We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts.
Rick Warren
#25. I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.
Stormie O'martian
#26. Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
Rachel Held Evans
#27. I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
Philip Yancey
#28. Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
Meir Soloveichik
#29. We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.
Rick Joyner
#30. We human beings often see only what is before our eyes. But God in His infinite justice searches the heart and our secret motives and manifests accordingly to us His mercy.
Robert K. Massie
#33. O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
Philip James Bailey
#34. There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.
Rick Warren
#35. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
Alexander Pope
#36. Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.
Joel Osteen
#37. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don't starve your soul.
Billy Graham
#38. Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.
Alan Paton
#39. 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
#40. Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith
#41. La ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu ... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet
Saddam Hussein
#42. I don't know how it works, but God, in His love, is able to take our messes and make them clean.
Gary Chapman
#43. Perhaps time is an inconsistent healer, but God can purge even the most painful memories.
Melanie Dickerson
#44. But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.
Liza Minnelli
#45. Asceticism for St. Anthony and others like him was never the end, only the means. Ward explains, "The aim of the monk's life was not asceticism, but God. It was important to follow Christ's example, to help the poor and sick, and to love the neighbor.
Norris J Chumley
#46. Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron
#48. The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
John L. Bates
#49. We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.
Jerry Bridges
#50. But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.
Jen Hatmaker
#52. Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here.
Alwyn Hamilton
#53. I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.
Tequan Richmond
#54. Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
Henry Ward Beecher
#55. For in the end, it is not Edwards or Piper or any other man who compels true faith, but God himself.
John Piper
#57. Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.
Mariska Hargitay
#59. I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel!
R. G. LeTourneau
#60. Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
Pope Francis
#61. This is how God sees you when you turn to Him. When you accept the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, you are cleansed, purified. You become His beautiful princess. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.
MaryLu Tyndall
#62. Concerning the earth, God asked Job, "To what were its foundations fastened?" What an awesome scientific question. But God answers His own question in the book of Job: "God stretches the northern sky over empty space [tohu] and hangs the earth on nothing! (Job 26:7
Phil Mason
#63. One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
Hudson Taylor
#64. No matter what may be happening today, God has good things in store for your future! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.
Joel Osteen
#65. But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Lactantius
#66. But God, the ruler of the universe, takes his stand upon it, regulating it and directing everything in a saving manner by the helm of his wisdom, using, in truth, neither hands nor feet, nor any other part whatever such as belongs to created objects.
Philo Of Alexandria
#67. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
James Montgomery
#68. But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Ellen G. White
#69. Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Lawrence Welk
#70. Divorce hadn't devastated her. She'd felt awful for her son, but God, she'd felt free, and she'd hoped that a happy mom was more important for Sawyer than a married one.
Victoria Dahl
#71. Think where you are, sir Knight," Nicodemus said, his mouth quirking up into a mocking smile. "The Underworld is a prison for souls. Do you think yours is so great as to escape it?" "I am not great," Michael said quietly. "But God is.
Jim Butcher
#72. Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.
Johnny Hunt
#73. To a man whose confidence is in his own strength, the gospel will be foolishness. But God shows his children things when it is imperative - when it is important for us and when it serves his purpose.
Jose Henriquez
#74. That is disgusting, and I will never kiss you again." "Yes, you will," he said, and proved by pressing his lips to hers. She wanted to squirm away, just to prove the point but God, she loved kissing him.
Rachel Caine
#75. Never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
Norman Mailer
#78. For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
Christopher Smart
#80. Jesus Christ's life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. But what seemed failure from man's standpoint was a tremendous triumph from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose.
Oswald Chambers
#81. But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.
Izaak Walton
#82. But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.
John Milton
#83. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
Jerry Bridges
#84. 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
#85. I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man ... A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
Joyce Kilmer
#86. The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth
#87. Six years is a long time. To leave the fans with their hands in the air and to come back six years later, and the people still have their hands in the air, that's nothing but God. I'm standing in a position that's so humbling.
Mystikal
#88. The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.
Carl Jung
#89. Put God to the test when troubles come. He won't let you down. In the midst of a painful illness, Paul begged God to intervene and take it away. But God replied, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12:9). It was sufficient for Paul, and it will be for you.
Billy Graham
#90. God could have kept Daniel out of the lion's den. But God has never promised to keep us out of hard places. What He has promised is to go with us through every hard place, and bring us through victoriously.
Merv Rosell
#91. We are most often focused on what is happening to us, but God is more concerned about what is happening in us.
Pete Wilson
#92. A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
Thomas Aquinas
#93. All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.
Cormac McCarthy
#94. What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!
David LaChapelle
#96. God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us.
Max Lucado
#97. They tore Joseph coat of many colors as evidence of his death and dreams but God brought together his life for his People, to prepare them posterity
Ikechukwu Joseph
#98. So you know it was a glorious battle, Hook, in which God favoured the English, but God's favour is a fickle thing.'
'Are you telling me He's not on our side?'
'I'm telling you that God is on the side of whoever wins, Hook.
Bernard Cornwell
#99. We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
C.S. Lewis
#100. I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.
Dwight L. Moody
