To God Quotes

#1. The discipline of the Gospel is coming to God on His terms.

Barbara Hughes

#2. Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.

Shri Radhe Maa

#3. The sacredness of Christmas: glory to God in the highest holy heavens, peace on earth and goodwill to all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

Blaise Pascal

#5. In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

Augustus Hopkins Strong

#6. Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God's frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN

Sunday Adelaja

#7. What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

Alan Redpath

#8. There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.

Monica Johnson

#11. The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

Mark Batterson

#12. Apart from Christ you are farther from God than you feared. In Christ you are nearer to God than you hoped. Through faith in the truth about who God is and who he's made you to be, you're reconciled to God in Christ.

Mark Driscoll

#13. The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Leslie Fiedler

#14. We are of such value to God that He came to live among us ... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#15. I felt resolved to give up every thing, and seek to be reconciled to God. That fear, which I had ever felt, that others would know I was serious, now vanished away, and I was willing that the whole universe should know that I felt myself to be lost and perishing sinner

Courtney Anderson

#16. When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Ole Hallesby

#17. I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Joel Osteen

#18. The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

Deepak Chopra

#19. People are leaving the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

#20. I nodded dejectedly. She was right. There wasn't a thing that we could do. But perhaps burn a few bunches of incense to Sekhmet. I would utter some frantic prayers to God too even though Christianity hadn't even been thought of yet. It wouldn't hurt to cover all of my bases.

Courtney Cole

#21. You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

Victoria Osteen

#22. If we are not being moved in heart and moved to new places in life - new levels of obedience to God - we are not really reading the Bible the way God wants us to.

George H. Guthrie

#23. When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.

Henry T. Blackaby

#24. Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. - 3 John 1:5

Gary Chapman

#25. The people who related to God best
Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah
treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

Philip Yancey

#26. Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others.

Jim George

#27. When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.

Julian Of Norwich

#28. The Magi bring treasures and gifts fitting for a king. Hearts that are seeking, that are open will be overjoyed at finding, will fall down and worship. Deceptive and scheming minds will be frustrated, left out of the divine communication. Worship leaves us more open and receptive to God,

Ron Oltmanns

#29. Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.

Al-Ghazali

#30. Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry;
And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves
All glory arrogate, to God give none

John Milton

#31. Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

Charles Brent

#32. The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

Edith Stein

#33. It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Bill Hybels

#34. There are many of the sisters whose labors are not known beyond their own dwellings, and perhaps not appreciated there. But what difference does that make? If your labors are acceptable to God, however simple the duties, if faithfully performed, you should never be discouraged.

Eliza R. Snow

#35. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#36. What a state of safety and privilege is this nearness to God through Jesus! Do you know it by experience? If you know it, are you living in the power of it?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#37. My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#38. However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Malcolm Boyd

#39. Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.

Francine Rivers

#40. When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

Nick Hornby

#41. The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

Billy Graham

#42. The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

Deepak Chopra

#43. I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

John Woolman

#44. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

DeVon Franklin

#45. Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

William Ralph Inge

#46. Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

Martin Luther

#47. I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.

Andre Ward

#48. While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith
clinging to God despite your circumstances
will bring heaven to your soul

Skip Heitzig

#49. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

Herman Boerhaave

#50. God is under no manner of obligation to show mercy to any natural man, whose heart is not turned to God: and that a man can challenge nothing either in absolute justice, or by free promise, from any thing he does before he has believed on Jesus Christ, or has true repentance begun in him.

Jonathan Edwards

#51. It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

Jimmy Swaggart

#52. No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light.

Johan Oscar Smith

#53. To preach the gospel is to proclaim with trumpet tongue and flaming zeal the unsearchable riches of Christ Jesus, so that men may hear, and understanding, may turn to God with full purpose of heart.30

Steven J. Lawson

#54. The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do.

Sunday Adelaja

#55. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. "Someone is dying," thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

Hans Christian Andersen

#56. If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented.

Gail Davis

#57. Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

Joel Beeke

#58. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Criss Jami

#59. Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Peter Kreeft

#60. Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory.

Jonathan Edwards

#61. I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without ... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Socrates

#62. The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#63. Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.

Ravi Zacharias

#64. If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.

Daniel Ortega

#65. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Cato The Younger

#66. We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.

Jerry Bridges

#67. It's best not to depend on the gray haired. We're too close to God to rely on,

Nadia Hashimi

#68. It is not the rights of women to occupy "official" ministerial roles, nor their equality to men in those roles, that set the terms of their service to God and their neighbors. It is their obligations that do so - obligations that derive from their human abilities empowered by divine gifting.

Alan F. Johnson

#69. It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Thomas Aquinas

#70. The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Stephen J. Rivele

#71. When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

Paul Washer

#72. If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

Jerry Bridges

#73. We need to think about that future more often. I confess I don't. My mind is tied too much to the here and now and not enough to God's future kingdom.

Scot McKnight

#74. Every single floorboard quivers and shudders under my feet, and I start mentally bargaining with the house: If I make it to the front door without waking up Aunt Carol, I swear to God I'll never slam another door. I'll never call you "an old piece of turd" again.

Lauren Oliver

#75. The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

Dillon Burroughs

#76. To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Isaac Watts

#77. Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ.

Glenn Haybittle

#78. I am accountable.
I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God.
By the love of God.
By the word of God.
Completely supplied in Christ Jesus.
Unto all good works.

Carlton T. Brown

#79. All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.

Ellen G. White

#80. Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#81. I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

Bob Fosse

#82. Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining silent for billions of years somewhere outside our universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#83. I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office ...

Louie Gohmert

#84. The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

Timothy Keller

#85. The way we think of and respond to God is the most practical thing we do. In matters of everyday practicality, nothing, absolutely nothing, takes precedence over God.

Eugene H. Peterson

#86. When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

Jerry Bridges

#87. Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.

Linda Dillow

#88. A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

Brother Lawrence

#89. Jesus died! He chose the most grueling death to bring you to God! Everything is changed! You and I were destined for a horrifying encounter with God - we were "objects of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) - but that has all changed! Death no longer scares me! I can't wait to die! Thank you Jesus!!!

Francis Chan

#90. More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

Mark Twain

#91. The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Seth Shostak

#92. I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.

Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

#93. The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Hermann Hesse

#94. I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

Diana Vreeland

#95. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou

#96. Imagine placing God foremost in your heart each morning and striking out on His path for your day, deliberately living for Him. As you commit yourself to God each day, He will work in your heart!

Elizabeth George

#97. Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Richard Cecil

#98. Learning to desire God's will is not something we can accomplish by resolve and willpower. It occurs only when we live so close to God's heart that the rhythm of our own heartbeat comes to reflect the divine pulse

David G. Benner

#99. The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.

Larry Burkett

#100. Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'

Isidor Isaac Rabi