Quotes About The Way God Works

#1. God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.

Jonah Books

#2. That's the way God works-one small key opens a big door.

Frank Marzullo

#3. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#4. "The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.

Robert Jeffress

#5. The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

John Piper

#6. Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Randy Newman

#7. In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was noting unnatural about it.

Heber C. Kimball

#8. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

Thomas Mullen

#9. The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

T. S. Eliot

#10. Never will I be satisfied until God works in convicting power and men and women weep their way to the cross. . . . Oh that He would break me down and cause me to weep for the salvation of souls.

Alvin L. Reid

#11. In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.

G. C. Berkouwer

#12. I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

Tim Harford

#13. If you're not aligned with God, it's hard to recognize yourself as being of God. The way that you get aligned with God is by being like God, being like Source, being like energy. That means understanding how God works.

Wayne Dyer

#14. I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.

Philip Yancey

#15. The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

Stephen Hawking

#16. But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into the act of praying; you are free to participate in the life of God.

Lauren F. Winner

#17. When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

Brian D. McLaren

#18. Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us - namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a "living" book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.

Billy Graham

#19. God implants Spirit and zeal into our hearts in order to accomplish a work. When the work is done, a quiet rest remains. We do not have to push one another aside because God has prepared our works so that each one can keep out of one another's way. We only have to take heed that we do His works.

Johan Oscar Smith

#20. Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out.

Kristin Armstrong

#21. One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven ... works have a place
but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Ravi Zacharias

#22. Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#23. [N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.

Vincent De Paul

#24. You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#25. Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.

Robert Jeffress

#26. The only way to know how prayer works is to have complete knowledge and control of the past, present, and future. In other words, you can figure out how prayer works if you are God.

Paul E. Miller

#27. The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Demetri Martin

#28. God works with the world as it is in order to bring it to where it can be. Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be. Prayer opens the world to its own transformation.

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

#29. Spiritual maturity is becoming like Jesus in the way we think, feel, and act. The more you develop Christlike character, the more you will bring glory to God. The Bible says, "As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more."16

Rick Warren

#30. We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.

John Owen

#31. To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.

Martin Luther

#32. Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

Richard Blackaby

#33. This rebel would but toss his head, and men,slaves,horses, towers ... all the accursed levels above him ... would come tumbling down. God always works in this way. Deep in the foundations of wrong he buries the small despised cry of justice.

Nikos Kazantzakis