Top 100 Quotes About The Ways Of God
#1. You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian McEwan
#2. Whoever knows the ways of God can also do the works of God, and lead a nation, manifesting the miracles and signs of God
Sunday Adelaja
#3. A wonderful truth engulfed her. She was safe. They were all still safe. As long as they followed the ways of God, they had nothing to fear. He was holy - but he was just. And as long as they followed their godly leaders - like Peter, like Stephen - they would remain protected and on the right path.
Janette Oke
#4. As you thus take "sweet counsel" with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your converse is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking unto him; let your heart be full of him; let your lips speak of his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
John Milton
#6. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. In the circuits of the planets there are times when the heavens are under the earth, and in the ways of God with men there was a time when Heaven was under the earth, and that was when Christ was born in the cave of Bethlehem.
Fulton J. Sheen
#9. If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
Saint Augustine
#10. The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
Haile Selassie
#13. The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.
Abraham Kuyper
#15. If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Anne Hutchinson
#16. Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Alexander Pope
#17. How dark are all the ways of god to man!
Euripides
#18. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.
Enuma Okoro
#19. What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.
John Milton
#20. In our ignorance, there will always be a rebuke, a murmur, or an opinion that is not in line with God. Without knowing it, we begin to speak against the ways of God, the house of God, or the man or the woman of God.
John A. Tetsola
#21. Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
Aldous Huxley
#23. The doctrine of the Trinity simply states that God fully exists in three personally distinct ways.
Gregory A. Boyd
#24. One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.
Isaac
#25. As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
Neal A. Maxwell
#26. One of the ways over the years that the church has severely weakened corporate prayer is that we let prayer be about the people there, rather than about God. We
Jonathan L Graf
#27. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
Elizabeth Goudge
#28. The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'
David Platt
#29. Walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men.
Anonymous
#31. Whoever believes in a God at all, believes in an infinite mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can very well expect and afford to have many of His ways mysterious to us.
Ichabod Spencer
#32. Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#33. God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.
Edward T. Welch
#34. Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka
#36. Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.
Elizabeth George
#37. In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.
Jeremy Lin
#38. We need his kingdom to "come." Calvin believed there were two ways God's kingdom comes - through the Spirit, who "corrects our desires," and through the Word of God, which "shapes our thoughts.
Timothy Keller
#39. There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another ... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#40. The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.
Andrew Root
#41. Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
C.S. Lewis
#42. Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
William P. Young
#43. We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.
John Owen
#44. We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.
Ronald Reagan
#46. We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.
Nancy Pearcey
#47. He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.
Thomas Merton
#48. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.
Selma Lagerlof
#49. Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.
Billy Graham
#50. A child is born with no state of mind,
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
Because only God knows what you'll go through.
Melvin Glover
#51. God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
John Piper
#52. Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
Adam Hamilton
#53. The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.
John Piper
#54. When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.
Walter Cradock
#55. It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the most balanced and in many ways the most authentic interpretation of the affair.
Royston Lambert
#56. When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
B.B. King
#57. Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?
Jim Starlin
#58. The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
Francis Scott Key
#59. God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
David Platt
#60. I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#61. Some girls look to fill the emptiness with their rebellious ways and get into trouble. Other girls try hard to fill the emptiness with good things and get praise. But both girls are reaching for something we'll never find outside of God.
Emily P. Freeman
#62. It was like carrying a rabbit's foot or throwing salt over your shoulder if you happened to spill any; these things were part of the grain and texture of life, and better to do them than not, just in case God's ways were more mysterious than we Christians could grasp.
Robert McCammon
#63. One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.
Sammy Rhodes
#64. In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
Bernadette Roberts
#65. You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.
Kay Arthur
#66. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
Billy Graham
#67. Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#68. The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.
Henry B. Eyring
#69. The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!
Gareth Roberts
#71. We serve a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God, a wonder-working God!" he loved to say. "And answered prayer is one of the ways we experience him.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#72. If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.
Michael Palin
#73. I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer ... but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
Bill Hybels
#74. You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God
he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, Behold I am vile.
Dwight L. Moody
#75. One of Satan's most effective ways of blocking God's work is to convince us God can't use us to make an impact for Christ. But it isn't true. All around you are people no one else will ever be able to reach with the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#76. One of the joys of heaven ... will be discovering the hidden ways that God in His sovereignty acted in our lives on earth to protect and guide us [that we might] bring glory to His name, in spite of our frailty.
Billy Graham
#77. Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
Matthew Stewart
#78. Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
Charles Ives
#79. God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?
D.B.C. Pierre
#80. God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.
Craig S. Keener
#81. 33Oh, the depth of the riches and s wisdom and knowledge of God! t How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Anonymous
#82. One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.
Tim Hansel
#83. There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized
Saint Augustine
#84. Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.
Bill Johnson
#86. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
Socrates
#87. Karmen rolls her eyes and groans. "God help me." I lean forward and nip at her earlobe. "I'm not God baby. I'm the Devil. I want to play and corrupt and worship you in the most sinful of ways.
Tiffany Aleman
#88. One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us. This means we accept others' quirks and look past their faults in order to see a person created in the image of God.
Rick Warren
#89. God uniquely highlights marriage as one of the main ways we know who he is and how he relates to us.
Jefferson Bethke
#90. This is the South and we have our own ways of doing things down here. We're not going to sit back in silence while people like Wiley ram their homosexuality down our throats."
"God knows I ain't about to put my homosexuality in your mouth, Billy," I said.
Nick Wilgus
#91. There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.
Fulton J. Sheen
#92. Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
Billy Graham
#93. 4 v Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your w truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Anonymous
#94. Because of our love for each other, I understand just a little more how God has pursued me in creative and whimsical ways, ways the initially did not get my attention. Nevertheless, He wouldn't stop. That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end.
Bob Goff
#95. Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
Narendra Modi
#96. And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
Warren Jeffs
#97. Old ways of doing things cease to be effective, though they may have been very powerful in the past. There arises a very real danger that we will set ourselves in opposition to what God truly is doing now and aims to do in the future.
Dallas Willard
#98. He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.
D.L. Moody
#99. When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.
Billy Graham
#100. When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
