Quotes About God Speaking

#1. To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to actually hear God speaking and also to meet God himself.

Timothy J. Keller

#2. Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

Dave Foley

#3. We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?

J.M. Coetzee

#4. Scripture is God speaking. Though the words they'd read had been penned more than a thousand years earlier, still God spoke in the reading of those words. Jesus held them accountable for the words of Scripture as if God Himself had spoken those words directly to them!

James R. White

#5. Divine Revelation is God speaking. Faith is man listening.

John A. Hardon

#6. If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

Wayne Dyer

#7. We believe that if the Bible is God speaking, then the most important posture of the Christian before the Bible is to listen.

Tremper Longman III

#8. There are different types of salvation." he said, diplomatically. "No." Rena shook him off. "There's only one. In the voice of God, speaking through the space between the stars.

Anne Corlett

#9. However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

Laurie R. King

#10. How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

J. Vernon McGee

#11. God speaks all languages - including yours. What language is God speaking to you?

Max Lucado

#12. Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains.

Eric Samuel Timm

#13. As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

Jack Canfield

#14. God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Michael Horton

#15. When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Don King

#17. Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

Hafez

#18. The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Stephen J. Rivele

#19. The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. He thought only of one thing
the geometries before him. Here was God speaking in His simple absolute language, according to the same grammar that He had used to start the planets on their smooth and silken dance.

Mark Helprin

#21. God does not look at our suffering from afar. It is an intimate event to him. He is the author of every detail, speaking the suffering as it occurs.

Ben Palpant

#22. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.

Carl R. Trueman

#26. Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Billy Graham

#27. F He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

Anonymous

#28. What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened.

Steven Pinker

#29. God did not appear to Abraham without speaking to him. When He came to Abraham, He called him. God spoke to Abraham. Calling means speaking. It is not a small thing to hear God's speaking.

Witness Lee

#30. I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#31. God is quickly fulfilling today all that He has said in the past through His prophets, and is speaking presently through His ministers and servants. We are embarking upon the time of harvest.

T.D. Jakes

#32. Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening.

Ellen F. Davis

#33. Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Dolly Parton

#34. One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

Lex Luger

#35. Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice.
"Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.

Abbi Glines

#36. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).

Max Lucado

#37. Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Deepak Chopra

#38. She didn't know if she was speaking to Grandmother or the God Beyond. So often, they were the same in her mind. Had she ever realized that before?

Brandon Sanderson

#39. God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#40. The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy.

Sipporah Joseph

#41. I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' ... You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

Chelsea Handler

#42. It was just one of those times in life when you know that God is speaking.

Angie Smith

#43. The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

Meister Eckhart

#44. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

Agona Apell

#45. [Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery.

Pope John Paul II

#46. Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#47. All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

Martin Luther

#48. Arthur Braithwaite, known to Louisa and the children as God. And all right, strictly speaking Braithwaite did not exist. Why should he? Not every god has to exist in order to do his job.

John Le Carre

#49. I do try to say, God's will be done, sir," said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; "but it's harder to be resigned than happy people think.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#50. He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.

Cormac McCarthy

#51. The moment we begin to believe we have got something about God figured out with certainty is the moment we can be sure we are no longer speaking about God.

Brandan Roberston

#52. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

Mother Teresa

#53. Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance ...

Annie Dillard

#54. Most Christians speak to God about their mountain instead of speaking to their mountain about God!

Andrew Wommack

#55. When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

David Jeremiah

#56. I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

#57. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.

Teresa Hampton

#58. If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Stanley

#59. A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God.

Sunday Adelaja

#60. Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

Jon Krakauer

#61. We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

John Calvin

#62. If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.

Dan Phillips

#63. (speaking of insecurity)
"It's broken greater spirits than ours, and robbed the world of God knows how much beauty. I've seen it happen more times than I like to think about."
"$10,000 A Year, Easy

Kurt Vonnegut

#64. Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.

Dallas Willard

#65. Samuel didn't know God was speaking to him until his mentor Eli helped him understand what was happening.

Jeff Goins

#66. A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

Monica Johnson

#67. If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#68. If the answer is simple, God is speaking.

Albert Einstein

#69. When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.

Steve Maraboli

#70. The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

Mark Batterson

#71. Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect ... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically ... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!

Adolf Hitler

#72. I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

Kathleen Hanna

#73. as fellow pilgrims on the journey. In individual prayer, as we have seen, we have many ways of hearing and speaking with God, but in our wider spiritual life we are companioned and in conversation with friends in both the here and now and the 'great cloud of witness'.

Malcolm Guite

#74. I am sure your piety does you great credit, Margaret. But certainly, if God is speaking to the king, then He has not chosen the best time for this conversation.

Philippa Gregory

#75. And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

Dallas Willard

#76. The Bible does not say that God speaks and then proceeds to act, that he names and then proceeds to shape - but that God's speaking and acting are the same thing. His word is his action, his divine power.

Timothy Keller

#77. Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.

Thomas C. Oden

#78. Now, properly speaking, grace is never in a person's heart, but in God's heart. First a person must believe. After that he may feel. Feeling proceeds from faith - not faith from feeling.

C.F.W. Walther

#79. Intercession is speaking and singing God's heart back to Him. He has made His plans and purposes known to us in His Word. We are to discern His will and call it forth in faith and partnership with Him, and He answers by stretching out His hand in authority.

Anna Blanc

#80. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.

V.C. Andrews

#81. Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

William Herndon

#82. James warns against the pride of presumption in speaking of
the simplest plans in life without a due submission to the overarching
sovereignty of God over the day's agenda. Man's plans might be interrupted by God's decision to take the life he gave.

John Piper

#83. When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Jakob Bohme

#84. Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.

John Stott

#85. I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

Robert E.Lee

#86. Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

Shirley Maclaine

#87. The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.

Steve Munsey

#88. To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle. Yet this is what Christmas says - and we take refuge from our bewilderment not in explanation but in adoration.

Ralph P. Martin

#89. As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent ... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

Soren Kierkegaard

#90. O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.

William Mountford

#91. ...[A]nd I'll be wiser hereafter
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I to take this drunkard for a god
And worship this dull fool!
---Caliban speaking of Stephano and Trinculo
(lines 298 -301).

William Shakespeare

#92. Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Blaise Pascal

#93. God's voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#94. Sound exegesis is the only way of making sure we are allowing God to speak rather than our speaking for God.

James R. White

#95. Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#96. The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Donald Miller

#97. Generally speaking, "an eye single to the glory of God" means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do, we have to do what the Lord wants us to do, but we have to do it in his way when he wants us to do it.

Hartman Rector Jr.

#98. There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.

Terryl L. Givens

#99. Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.

Maya Angelou

#100. If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!

Henry Blackaby