Top 100 Quotes About Finding God
#1. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.
Leslie Ludy
#2. Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.
Meher Baba
#3. The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.
Pepe Romero
#4. Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.
Dan Miller
#5. From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#6. The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.
Brother Lawrence
#7. Anyone can find places but finding people is a gift from God.
E. M. Forster
#8. All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.
Wheeler McMillen
#9. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#11. Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature.
Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.
Donald L. Hicks
#12. To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together. His glory and your gladness are not separate tracks moving in opposite directions. Rather His glory is in your gladness in Him.
Sam Storms
#13. Our ability to accept life's difficult offerings is a testament of our relationship with God.
Scott Hildreth
#14. God, remind me that peace comes not from having my needs met, but by finding my hope in You. - Ashley Kappel
Zondervan Publishing
#15. Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Dallas Willard
#16. God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!
Shannon L. Alder
#17. I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
Tom Landry
#18. Finding God often happens in the midst of a community - with a "we" as often as an "I.
James Martin
#19. Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.
Samuel Chadwick
#20. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. To follow God, one must be a little "out of their mind" (and "into their Spirit").
Donald L. Hicks
#22. An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.
Deepak Vidyarthi
#23. Do you believe in God, doctor?
No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
Albert Camus
#24. Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Saint Augustine
#25. It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.
Anthony Liccione
#26. When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.
Gayle D. Erwin
#27. define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in action Looking at the world in an incarnational way Seeking freedom and detachment
James Martin
#28. The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
Henry Ward Beecher
#29. Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.
Paul Gitwaza
#30. 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
#31. Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
Rumi
#32. If you think God looks only one way or sounds only one way or is only one way, you're going to look right past Me night and day. You'll spend your whole life looking for God and not finding Her. Because you're looking for a Him.
Neale Donald Walsch
#33. Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
J.I. Packer
#34. Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
John Nelson Darby
#36. Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.
Raymond Arroyo
#37. One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .
Bill Hybels
#39. Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or fault- finding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he now has in store.
N. T. Wright
#40. The pain of aloneness and pointlessness is piercing. It demands relief. That single fact - that the pain of living apart from God is unbearable - exposes our sinfulness as horribly grotesque and foolish. We insist on finding relief without coming to God on His terms.
Larry Crabb
#41. When you're reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.
LeCrae
#42. The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
Meher Baba
#43. God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.
Paulo Coelho
#44. The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.
Alex Kendrick
#45. Discernment is first of all a habit, a way of seeing that eventually permeates our whole life. It is the journey from spiritual blindness (not seeing God anywhere or seeing him only where we expect to see him) to spiritual sight (finding God everywhere, especially where we least expect it).
Ruth Haley Barton
#46. Patience is the art of finding something else to do.
Groucho Marx
#47. God had certainly not abandoned her."
(Finding Margo)
Jen Turano
#48. Ever since I started hanging around you, it's more like 'Oh, look, something messed up is going on. Let's poke it And see what happens. Wow, it's even bigger and more messed-up than it looked like. Let's poke it again. Oh my God, where did those giant flaming woodchucks come from?
Elliott James
#49. Finding a psychic on Google probably wasn't the most reputable way of sourcing contact with God,
Jessica Smith
#50. Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
Erwin McManus
#51. What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#52. There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.
Edward Hirsch
#53. Marriage is more than finding the right person ... it is being the right person!
Elizabeth George
#54. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there. Shaking,
James S.A. Corey
#56. I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#57. Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others
Gary Hopkins
#58. In order to have a spiritual life, you need not enter a seminary, or fast, or abstain, or take a vow of chastity. All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become vehicles for His miracles.
Paulo Coelho
#59. Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.
Tim Kimmel
#60. One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in.
Tony Evans
#61. There is going on in the world today a quiet, bloodless revolution. It has no fanfare, no newspaper coverage, no propaganda; yet it is changing the course of thousands of lives. It is restoring purpose and meaning to life as men of all races and nationalities are finding peace with God.
Billy Graham
#62. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
C.S. Lewis
#63. A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death.
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
#64. Finding things and losing things is what the Bible is all about. God even seemed to encourage it. He talked about losing your job, or even your life, if you want to find it. He talked about losing your status to find real power.
Bob Goff
#65. There is a way of the Spirit unknown to the natural mind. No barrier can keep you from finding His best except an unyielded will. As long as it is your inmost desire to know the will of God and do it, He Himself will guide and direct in all sorts of surprising ways.
Frances J Roberts
#66. Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.
Frank Wilczek
#67. If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.
Larisa Alexandrovna
#68. Be content, Be grateful, Be loving, Be happy, and this lifestyle will not only change YOUR life, it will change OUR world. I finally grasped the true meaning of let go- let God. (An excerpt from Finding Inner Peace)
Alice Hocker
#69. But prayer and meditation aren't only in the realm of religion. I'd say neither is God, for that matter, brother Matt. What it's about is finding a peaceful center, even when we think that life is totally whack!
Daniel D. Maurer
#70. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Aldous Huxley
#71. Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances.
Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
John Ortberg
#72. In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.
Millard Fuller
#74. finding greater pleasure in God will not result from pursuing more experiences of him, but from knowing him better. It will result from making a study of the Godhead.
Jen Wilkin
#75. The first step toward finding God
who is truth
is to discover the truth about myself; and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error
Thomas Merton
#76. I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.
Felix Mendelssohn
#77. Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.
Tracie Peterson
#78. I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.
Anna White
#79. God wants to date us! ...where do you take God for a date? (Having made the world, finding somewhere new is difficult.)
Christine Caine
#80. The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
Pope John Paul II
#81. You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
Watchman Nee
#83. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
#84. In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin
#85. Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church
Marilyn Manson
#86. We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation.
Sunday Adelaja
#88. Freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, those that fit with the realities of our own nature and those of the world.32 So the commandments of God in the Bible
Timothy Keller
#89. Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!
Shannon L. Alder
#90. God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no ... Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.
Richard Rohr
#91. Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Christopher Morley
#92. Do you know my attitude? Books, scriptures, and things like that only point out the way to reach God. After finding the way, what more need is there of books and scriptures? Then comes the time for action.
Ramakrishna
#93. Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
Sivananda
#94. Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.
Thomas Merton
#95. Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
Anne Graham Lotz
#96. One time, as the cold wind blew and she kept watch over the playground, Aomame realized she believed in God. It was a sudden discovery, like finding, with the soles of your feet, solid ground beneath the mud.
Haruki Murakami
#97. There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
Blaise Pascal
#98. If the kingdom of God belongs to the poor, the bottom dwellers, then rich American Christians are going to have the hardest time finding it.
Jen Hatmaker
#99. How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?
John Calvin
#100. The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
Karl Marlantes
