Quotes About Mistakes And God

#1. Church and God ain't the same thing. From what I know, God's perfect. The Church makes mistakes ... God's about order, Church is about power, as best as I can figure, to be against one is not to be against the other.

Nathan Yocum

#2. I am a Christian. I believe in God. I believe in Christ. Everybody is entitled to their own religion and their own opinion. I'm not saying I'm perfect and that I don't make mistakes. But I do believe in a higher power.

Davone Bess

#3. And, we (who come to him) are loosed from our sins and accusation by his shed blood. Revelation 1:5"
{we are not the same person that have done those mistakes, we are changed! And, have received the righteousness of God with a new heart, conscience, hope and joy}

Ibiloye Abiodun Christian

#4. Many times what we see as our biggest mistakes and failures can become what God uses the most. However,

Shelley Hitz

#5. Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.

Paulo Coelho

#6. I didn't deserve a friend like this, who loved me for no reason--- who loved me despite my mistakes. I caught my breath as the thought entered my mind. Could God love me this way too? If Josh was going to jump off this boat and trust in God to save us, couldn't I trust him as well?

Nicole Quigley

#7. God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

Simon Le Bon

#8. God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation.

Mike Tyson

#9. Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

Billy Ray Cyrus

#10. I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

Martin Lawrence

#11. If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

George Muller

#12. While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory.

Bob Kauflin

#13. Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.

Shane Claiborne

#14. When one has made as many mistakes as I have, one becomes very familiar with the fullness of God's grace and mercy.

Robin LaFevers

#15. People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.

Newt Gingrich

#16. You see, I'm not the hack. God is. And the Old Fart doesn't know how to write a conclusion that'll satisfy his audience. He leaves that to us, his lost children, doing his dirty work, inventing uplifting endings to erase his mistakes.

Rafael Yglesias

#17. The worst thing about e-mail is that you can't interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It's frustrating and it's time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

George Carlin

#18. O God, I can no longer fight my battles alone. I need Your help, Your love. Forgive me for all my mistakes. Cleanse my heart of all evil. Show me the way to peace and quiet and health, and fill me with love even for my enemies

Unknown

#19. One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.

John Fairclough

#20. My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.

Marjorie Holmes

#21. St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " 'God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.

Anne Rice

#22. God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

Martin O'Malley

#23. One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Linda Dillow

#24. God says if we will direct our worship to Him, He will give us strength to turn from the mistakes of yesterday and provide portions for our needs of today.

Lysa TerKeurst

#25. Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God?
Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia

#26. I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

Common

#27. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

Oswald Chambers

#28. Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer ... '
Well, isn't it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

Epictetus

#29. You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

Hayden Panettiere

#30. Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey

#31. Whatever strengths and weaknesses we possess are all a part of God's plan for our beautiful, messy lives. He uses every detail of our mess for his greater glory, and can redeem even our deepest, darkest, most daring mistakes until they're more beautiful than we could've ever imagined.

Stacey Thacker

#32. Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also simple; or better: God, in whom we believe and in whom we trust, is an incomplex Being, as He is also simply love.

John Of Kronstadt

#33. I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst ... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#34. God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

Ashley Judd

#35. God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.

Irene Hannon

#36. And I do - make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God, and I don't believe he makes mistakes. So I don't believe that being gay is not a sin, and in fact it's how you're made.

Kristin Chenoweth

#37. Let God's actions be accounted unto God, and man's actions be the responsibility of man. Do not blame God for man's mistakes.

Kassi Pontious

#38. When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break,
remember that you're perfect,
God makes no mistakes.

Jon Bon Jovi

#39. Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.

Anne Graham Lotz

#40. There are no coincidences and no mistakes. Every role has a purpose and every path has merit. Everything we do and experience is for learning to remember our connection with God.

Peter Santos

#41. When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Paulo Coelho

#42. Confusion and mistakes come when we forget the importance of God's word as our unwavering guide.

Hugh W. Pinnock

#43. Failures are not fatal. It's not that he loves what you did, but he loves who you are. You are his. The One who has the right to condemn you provided the way to acquit you. You make mistakes. God doesn't. And he made you.

Max Lucado

#44. One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don't have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#45. If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

Joel Osteen

#46. I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

Sherri Shepherd

#47. Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've made mistakes. We've all made mistakes. But God loves them, God cares for them, and Jesus Christ died for their sins.

Franklin Graham

#48. If you fall down to the ground, you're in the perfect position to pray. It definitely humbles you and if you're humble it's easier for God to get Closer to You.

Jeanette Coron

#49. Repent of your mistakes, learn from them, and move forward. Trust God to bring good out of whatever mess you're in.

Karen Witemeyer

#50. We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#51. I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Pat Conroy

#52. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Gene Roddenberry

#53. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.

Paul Gitwaza

#54. Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.

Dada Bhagwan

#55. It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Joel Osteen

#56. We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.

Francine Rivers

#57. I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Joyce Meyer

#58. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .

John Gwynne

#59. God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi

Hideaki Anno

#60. Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Ikechukwu Joseph

#61. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.

Candace Bushnell

#62. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..

Ansel Adams

#63. No matter your past or your future, the depth of your sin or the mistakes that you've made, the weariness of your soul or the obstacles in your path, you can experience God's love right here, right now, right where you are. And that's the beauty of grace.

Dawn Camp

#64. [In Christianity] humans are invited to co-create in mutual kenosis with this God who weaves our sins, mistakes, and follies into a pattern, and thus offers us salvation contingent on our willingness to have it.

Maggie Ross

#65. The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#66. God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Betty Eadie

#67. God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites

Sunday Adelaja

#68. To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.

Susan L. Taylor

#70. Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.

Pope Francis

#71. God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we've never dreamed. Let's trust that that is what is happening here for each of us.

Anne Rice

#72. I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

Tupac Shakur

#73. As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings - I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us.

Harper Lee

#74. We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.

Glenn Beck

#75. It is a comfort to know that, regardless of our mistakes, the God who loved, forgave, and empowered David does the same for us.

Cliff Graham

#76. God's love doesn't rejoice over the other people's mistakes and weaknesses.

Euginia Herlihy

#77. God's only mistakes are dogs and not giving cats opposable thumbs. Otherwise, it's a perfect world.

Quasi

#78. We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.

Lorenzo Snow

#79. Wisdom is the understanding that God exist, and that he is the creator of all life and things in the universe and upon Earth. This is truth. When we realize mistakes we have made, we should make serious efforts to correct them. This also, is truth.

Ellen J. Barrier

#80. I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#81. Our mistakes no longer define who we are, but instead we are to find worth in the name of Jesus. But we are not called to take this gift and run, or to ignore God, but to pursue him and thank him for the liberation he has provided us.

Jarrid Wilson

#82. In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

R. Kelly

#83. You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don't despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God's faithfulness, not yours.

Jeff Iorg

#84. God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life that is much bigger than you can imagine.

Michele Woolley

#85. But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

Henry Parry Liddon

#86. People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.

Jim Cymbala

#87. When you look at all the mistakes you've made, you see a mess. Like the innkeeper, you just want to repaint it and start over. But God sees what you can't. He sees a canvas with unique possibilities. When he goes to work on you, the result is breathtaking.

Max Lucado

#88. We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

James Larkin

#89. It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals
though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt
but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I
in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

Dag Hammarskjold

#90. Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

Rick Joyner

#91. I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

Newt Gingrich

#92. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Phyllis McGinley