Top 79 Quotes About Wanting God
#1. Grace is never wanting. God always gives sufficient grace to whoever is willing to receive it.
Francis De Sales
#2. Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
Brennan Manning
#3. Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
Louis Pasteur
#5. I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
Raymond Pettibon
#6. My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god
Darnell Lamont Walker
#7. Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!
Stormie O'martian
#8. Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is) ... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
C.S. Lewis
#9. Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.
David Kwang-sun Suh
#10. The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.
Chris Heimerdinger
#11. Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
Ray Comfort
#12. All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.
Karl Barth
#13. Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
Teresa Of Avila
#14. Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn't give it to you, because He knew you wouldn't be able to pay it.
Yasmin Mogahed
#15. The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
Thomas Aquinas
#16. In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception of eternal things.
John Tauler
#17. You don't have to fight anyone for me," she said.
"Except you."
Oh God. He leveled her with a few words and searing looks. She felt herself in a dizzying plunge, wanting the flight, worried about the landing. "I give as much as I am able," she said.
"I know," he answered.
Zoe Archer
#18. I swear to thee, friend, and may God Almighty bear me witness. For the sake of your love to me, never shall those that are yours go wanting, while I have aught to give.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things.
C.S. Lewis
#20. Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.
Francis Quarles
#21. God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
Teresa Of Avila
#22. We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their God simply because they love their God.
Criss Jami
#23. I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
Janine Di Giovanni
#24. Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.
Timothy Keller
#25. Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.
Vincent De Paul
#26. If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil.
Craig Clevenger
#27. God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
George Muller
#28. Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.
Stephen King
#29. Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.
Wanting a man who was sin itself.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#30. There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#31. Beck, this is not a good idea, hon. Oh my God, that is one hot little piece of disaster right there. Walk away while you still can, Beck. Oh sh*t. It's already too late, isn't it?
Maris Black
#32. As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#33. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given.
Linda Dillow
#34. People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
Rob Bell
#35. The whole idea of everybody wanting to be somebody new was an important insight in terms of liking God
Donald Miller
#36. I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.
Wayne Dyer
#37. When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#39. Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
Wayne Dyer
#40. You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
Allan Kardec
#41. I find something new in the Bible every time I read it ... that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God's truth.
Billy Graham
#42. There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
Nikos Kazantzakis
#43. It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching.
Thomas Merton
#44. The pull between us is electric. I feel it instantly when I meet his eyes. It's almost tangible. I find myself wanting to hurl myself into his body, and curl up, possibly never to leave.
God, I need to get a grip.
Who am I?
A pod-person, obviously.
Cassie Graham
#45. But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.
Charles Frazier
#46. If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots
Marilyn Manson
#47. In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.
Ken Wilson
#48. In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.
Maya Angelou
#49. What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?'
'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.'
'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.
Suzanne Enoch
#50. When human aid fails us, all is not wanting; for God takes over and takes care of us by His special Providence.
Francis De Sales
#51. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.
Hayley DiMarco
#53. God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).
Joyce Meyer
#54. I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel's attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don't understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.
Christina Lauren
#55. This whole situation is so fucked up. This game. This thing between us. It's exhausting. God, I'm just so sick of it and tired of hating Mr. Black one minute to wanting a future with you the next. A future I know will never happen.
Ella Dominguez
#56. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
John Locke
#57. His gaze lingered on her mouth and she shuddered. God, he was beautiful. There was something deep in his slate-colored eyes - something stirring, soulful - and Cassandra found herself wanting to know more.
Remy Landon
#58. To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that is the thing that no longer makes me want to be a Christian.
Woody Harrelson
#59. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG
Max Lucado
#60. Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
Orlando Bloom
#61. if you are in Christ, you always qualify for a blessing! Cursing is not coming your way. God is never mad at you. He is never disappointed in you. He is never frustrated and wanting you to get off your arse and get to work! Jesus did the work for you to get blessed. He said, "IT IS FINISHED!
Eric Dykstra
#62. Roger: "God, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."
Amy: "Really"
Roger: "Oh yes. Since Kansas. At least.
Morgan Matson
#63. I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,
Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..
Never to the defect of demanding of the World
That it be anything that's not the World.
Alberto Caeiro
#64. Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn't abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him.
J.D. Greear
#65. God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.
Robert Pierce
#66. I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.
Matt Dillon
#67. Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
G. Campbell Morgan
#68. If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
Joel Osteen
#69. And all our gods are one God," Avelyn replied quickly, not wanting to offend the elf. "A God of differing names perhaps, but of similar tenets. And when those tenets are misinterpreted," the monk went on, his voice turning grave, "when they are used for personal gain or as a
R.A. Salvatore
#70. What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.
Ralph Martin
#71. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.
Rick Warren
#72. What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#73. The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves ... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#74. Some people are only "believers" because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather than Christian servants, who are always willing to give.
Lisa Bedrick
#75. Many who have found Jesus Christ wanting in time of need have God confused with a genii.
Ron Brackin
#76. All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,
Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.
Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.
To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.
Alberto Caeiro
#77. If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?
Richard Dawkins
#78. God is ever wanting to add to us, to develop us, to enlarge us, to teach us more and more, but it is ever in the line of things which He has already taught us, and in which we have been established.
A.B. Simpson
#79. Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
R. Scott Bakker
