Quotes About Remembering God

#1. Remembering God's work in the past has a sustaining and renewing effect during times of spiritual drought. Memory and worship are thus keys to a long life of spiritual formation. Try

Richard J. Foster

#2. Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#3. Oh! it is not my remembering God, it is God's remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it is not my laying hold of His covenant, but His covenant's laying hold on me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

N. T. Wright

#5. Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Henri Nouwen

#6. The essence of life is in remembering God.

Kabir

#7. He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

Ibn Ata Allah

#8. Regular, consisten celebration pulls us back to remembering God's goodness.

Afton Rorvik

#9. I think that 'Little Angels' provides the gateway into that conversation about faith and about the Lord and about God's love for us. Remembering that the angels are just the messengers and the message is the message of love.

Roma Downey

#10. Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

Rick Warren

#11. By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#12. In the movie of life, nothing matters except our King and God. Don't let yourself forget. Soak it in and keep remembering that it is true. He is everything.

Francis Chan

#13. I urge you to stop remembering what God has forgotten.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

Beth Moore

#15. The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

Matthew Henry

#16. Remembering who God is can mean the difference between standing firm and being swept away.

Kathy Howard

#17. We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

Bob Goff

#18. Sometimes we're so focused on our desired blessings that we fail to stop and thank God by remembering the blessings we already have in Christ.

Mark Driscoll

#19. On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.

Mark Driscoll

#20. Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering.

Chaim Potok

#21. Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

Henry B. Eyring

#22. Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Derek Walcott

#23. To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.

Rodney Collin

#24. You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is ... God help him.

Khaled Hosseini

#25. Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You -
O God, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You

Rabia Basri

#26. Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Thomas Sowell

#27. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Amit Ray

#28. If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.

David Jeremiah

#29. Sometimes, to overcome a hurdle before us, we don't need to search for new truth or understanding of God so much as we need to live out what we already know.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#30. It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Leanne Payne

#31. Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Max Anders

#32. I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

A.W. Tozer

#33. I didn't want to remember ... yet in remembering, it dawned on me - finally - just how far down God had reached to free me.

Nikki Rosen

#34. Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.

Craig Groeschel

#35. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural.

Shauna Niequist

#36. Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Mark Batterson

#37. We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

Linda Dillow

#38. It's better," he thought in words, remembering some bit of reading, "to have no opinion of God at all than to have one that is unworthy of Him.

George R. Stewart

#39. 16I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Anonymous

#40. Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Elizabeth George

#41. before being born, each soul is kissed by God and then goes through life always, in some dark way, remembering that kiss and measuring everything it experiences in relation to that original sweetness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#42. Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

Mary MacKillop

#43. Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten.

Harry Whitewolf

#44. Tada references the accusation in Jeremiah that the people have forsaken God as Living Water by remembering a hiking trip from her younger days. Reaching a clear stream at the end of her trip, she emptied her canteen of the warm, metallic-tasting water and filled up on fresh water.

Joni Eareckson Tada