Quotes On Disappointment With God

#1. Our studies consistently show a large majority of people leave their church's service without feeling as though they have connected with God. If those who regularly attend depart with such disappointment and confusion, what must it be like for those who are new to the church adventure?

George Barna

#2. Man may fail you. But God will never forsake you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil wants you to believe God no longer loves you, but it isn't true. God's love for us never fails.

Billy Graham

#4. Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

Joel Osteen

#5. In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

Monica Johnson

#7. ...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.

Oswald Chambers

#8. [While] disappointment and failure aren't identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God's best for our lives.

Billy Graham

#9. The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another - if we seek it.

Billy Graham

#11. maybe we need great disappointment to appreciate the good, and to better appreciate the meaning of God in our lives. I've come to realize that part of faith is opening yourself up to free will and knowing God will bring beauty, even in the midst of evil.

Taya Kyle

#12. If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God

Sunday Adelaja

#14. God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross

Ravi Zacharias

#15. Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

George C. Lorimer

#17. Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.

Jen Pollock Michel

#18. Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

Amy Carmichael

#19. I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

Joel Osteen

#20. Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

Dwight L. Moody

#21. I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery.
Ann Eliza Young, page 253

David Ebershoff

#22. Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God's help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong?
Is there a new path God wants me to explore?

Billy Graham

#23. Jesus came for us, but that doesn't mean he came to please us. Jesus came for us, but he does not answer to us. Jesus came for us, but he will not subject himself to our agenda . . .

John Koessler

#24. I Ignore the unwelcome stab of disappointment. Why do I want to spend every single minute with this controlling sex god? Oh yes, I've fallen in love with him, and he can fly.

E.L. James

#25. We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Philip Yancey

#26. There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

John Newton

#27. God sees hearts as we see faces.

George Herbert

#28. Thank God I have my fraternity brothers. Real families are a disappointment.

Kandi Steiner

#29. Let disappointment do its deep work
remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself.

Emily P. Freeman

#30. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

Simon Critchley

#31. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

Henri Nouwen

#32. we love the way Jesus loves, good things will happen all in good time; if we try to force God's hand, we will only wind up with a lot of frustration and disappointment.

Bill Searcey

#33. It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.

Mary Oliver

#34. We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

James MacDonald

#35. For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

John Clellon Holmes

#36. It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#37. We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

Francine Rivers

#38. Prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn't respond to our needs and requests.

Gerald L. Sittser

#39. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

#40. Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

Charles Stanley

#41. God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.

Stasi Eldredge

#42. Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

#43. I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#44. The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

Catherine Marshall

#45. Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

C. A. Bartol

#46. Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

Luci Shaw

#47. The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture
not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with
that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

Ron Brackin

#48. The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren't the first person to cry. And you aren't the first person to be helped. Read the story, and remember - the story is yours!

Max Lucado

#49. I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Miles Franklin

#50. May the Lord be your redeemer.

Lailah Gifty Akita