Top 100 Speak To God Quotes
#1. Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.
Rick Warren
#2. Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.
Rick Warren
#3. When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.
Robert D. Hales
#4. Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
Seneca The Younger
#5. A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.
Mother Teresa
#6. We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
John Piper
#7. Most Christians speak to God about their mountain instead of speaking to their mountain about God!
Andrew Wommack
#9. There I found my sole comfort: Jesus, my only friend. I could talk only to Him. Talking to other people bored me, even when we spoke about religion. I felt it better to speak to God than about Him. There's often so much self-love involved in chatter about spiritual things!
John Beevers
#10. But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
William, Saroyan
#11. When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
Lily Tomlin
#12. The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
H.L. Mencken
#13. Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
Cyprian
#14. Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
John Wesley
#15. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#17. In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential.
Billy Graham
#18. When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. Jerome
#20. When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language ...
John Geddes
#21. Please do not tell me that you speak to God on my behalf. If a god exists, I am a good enough man to deserve the message myself.
Dan Pearce
#22. I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
Robert Frost
#23. I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.
Michael Jackson
#24. Jesus did not teach His disciples how to preach but how to pray. To know how to speak to God is more vital than knowing how to speak to men. It is power with God not man that is of supreme
Andrew Murray
#26. We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.
Mark Batterson
#27. A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
Thomas Merton
#28. When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to God in love and thanks, rather than to curse Him and one's fate, was the ultimate choice of any human creature, and perhaps the ultimate expression of one's humanity.
Naomi Ragen
#29. Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
Edgar Cayce
#30. In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
Mother Teresa
#31. There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
Thomas Carlyle
#32. Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing - a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END
Andrew Murray
#33. Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
Camillus De Lellis
#34. The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator.
He is not a God that hides himself, but a God who made all that he might reveal himself.
George MacDonald
#36. Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
Balian Of Ibelin
#37. It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.
Serge Kahili King
#38. Istory is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens and the Iliums was caused merely by some economic factor concerning trade ...
Jack Kerouac
#39. American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.
Hillary Clinton
#40. Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
Craig S. Keener
#41. A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.
Herman Bavinck
#42. I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
Albert Einstein
#43. Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.
Elizabeth George
#44. However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
John Of The Cross
#45. 2"Speak to the entire assembly of Israela and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God,b am holy.
Anonymous
#46. I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.
Ellen G. White
#47. When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
Martin Luther
#48. Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say - that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#49. Nevertheless, some people are afraid to pray. They hear others speak beautiful prayers and become self-conscious. God, however, cares less about beautiful words than a humble heart.
Ken Golden
#50. There is no greater privilege for anyone than being able to personally talk with and speak into the ears of Almighty God.
Stephen Kendrick
#51. Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
A.J. Ayer
#52. To hallow the name of God is simply to honor him as is his due, so that men shall not think or speak of him without the highest homage. The
John Calvin
#53. God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
John Stott
#54. Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind. Clint's morning voice was rich with passion.
I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his mind I was blowing, but my mother had taught me it was impolite to speak when one's mouth was full ...
P.C. Cast
#55. You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#56. Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
Rumi
#57. Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
George Herbert
#58. The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#59. The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
Pope Benedict XVI
#60. In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.
Frederick Lenz
#61. God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
Huston Smith
#62. When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.
Lewis Sperry Chafer
#63. When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
John Milton
#64. Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
Thomas Traherne
#65. A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#66. Why are we so terrified for God to speak to us? It is because we know that when God speaks we must either do what He asks or tell Him we will not obey.
Oswald Chambers
#67. 34Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritismf 35but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.g
Anonymous
#68. The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.
Pope John Paul II
#69. God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#70. Do you know what a great gift it is that God gave us the right to speak to Him every hour and moment, wherever we are? He always listens to us. This is the greatest honor we have. For this reason we must love God.
Porphyrios Bairaktaris Of Kafsokalivia
#71. I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.
John Shelby Spong
#72. Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.
Charles R. Swindoll
#73. If Kyan learned about Lucia's dream visit with Timotheus, he'd be furious. And since Lucia had quickly learned during their travels that the best kind of fire god was a calm fire god, she'd chosen not to speak a word of it to him. Still,
Morgan Rhodes
#74. Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#75. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard. Our preparations to receive Him sometimes have the opposite effect.
C.S. Lewis
#76. In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.
Wilferd Peterson
#77. Dear Lord,I am so thankful that You are always present. I never need to make an appointment to speak to You, the God of the universe. No matter where I go or what time it is, I can depend on Your presence.
Dave Branon
#78. When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.
Stormie O'martian
#79. Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's very own creation.
Joel Osteen
#80. Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'
Clarence Jordan
#81. The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
John Ortberg Jr.
#82. Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and
consciously or not
kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.
Mieczyslaw Jastrun
#83. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God's laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#84. I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
Henry Ward Beecher
#85. We can never speak about God rationally as we speak about ordinary things, but that does not mean we should give up thinking about God. We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing.
Joy Williams
#86. The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.
Philip K. Dick
#87. I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
Ingmar Bergman
#88. God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Christina, Queen Of Sweden
#89. My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.
John Wesley
#90. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.
Roberta Bondi
#91. The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Meister Eckhart
#92. Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
Alistair Begg
#93. There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#94. 8I will hear what God the LORD will speak, For He will speak peace To His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly.
Anonymous
#95. God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the world should be, if we only would have ears to hear and eyes to see...
Phil Steer
#96. We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
Ann Voskamp
#97. Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
God takes a text, and preaches patience.
George Herbert
#98. Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.
Paulo Coelho
#99. God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.
Joseph Fort Newton
#100. The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.
Jan Karon
