Top 100 Turn To God Quotes
#1. We must warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time. We must also proclaim that there is forgiveness and peace in knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Billy Graham
#3. For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.
Aldous Huxley
#6. Repent of their sins and turn to God - and prove they have changed by the good things they do.
Anonymous
#7. Emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ...
Ann Voskamp
#8. To discover you purpose in life you must turn to God's Word, not the world's wisdom. You must build your life on eternal truths, not pop psychology, success-motivation, or inspirational stories.
Rick Warren
#9. Turn to God now and stop struggling with your personal relationship with him
Sunday Adelaja
#10. This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
Randy Alcorn
#11. One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
#12. Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
Jonathan Sacks
#13. When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.
Ray Charles
#14. Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.
A.W. Tozer
#15. Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.
John C. Maxwell
#16. Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.
Rick Warren
#17. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
C.S. Lewis
#18. We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
C. West Churchman
#19. But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
Archibald Alexander
#20. The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.
Ronald Reagan
#21. If we will turn to God in prayer, and if we will seek His comfort through His Words in the Bible, we will find our hearts and minds healed.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#22. What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.
Elisabeth Elliot
#23. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.
Billy Graham
#24. We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
Thomas Aquinas
#25. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.
J.C. Ryle
#26. If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.
T. B. Joshua
#27. All the sick are gonna be healed, the dead are gonna be raised and nations are gonna turn to God in a day.
Paul Cain
#28. Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.
Ariel Levy
#29. In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that?
Rob Bell
#30. Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Mignon McLaughlin
#31. When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward
Jim Cymbala
#32. [Christians] are commanded to warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time.
Billy Graham
#33. The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
#34. Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn to God when everything is going well for us. We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption.
C.S. Lewis
#35. God has paid the greatest debt you will ever incur, and once you understand the incredible sacrifice He has made just for you, you will feel compelled to turn to God and to accept Jesus Christ into your heart.
Billy Graham
#36. Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
Frederick William Robertson
#37. At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
Lee Greenwood
#38. 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
#39. No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
Craig Groeschel
#40. I swear to God, if GreatReads doesn't stop sending me these notification emails...how many times do I have to turn them off?
Melanie Marchande
#41. Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.
Julian Of Norwich
#42. I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.
Lex Luger
#43. If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.
Anthony Liccione
#44. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
J.I. Packer
#45. When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
Herman Hesse
#46. I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life's chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.
Jolina Petersheim
#48. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.
Claude Cahun
#49. If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
Heather O'Neill
#50. I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?
Vladimir Nabokov
#51. There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my life would be yanked inside out.
Lewis B. Smedes
#52. God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#53. Scripture instructs God's people to give our best to whatever task we turn our hands to, to conduct ourselves as if we work for the Lord himself, not for man.
Karen Witemeyer
#55. Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.
Joyce Meyer
#56. In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein
#57. First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what's going on in the world.
Vivica A. Fox
#58. Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'
Sylvester Stallone
#59. It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author
and that he did not learn it better.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. I was putting too much stress on my body and not living a healthy life style, I wasn't taking care of myself. I was able to turn that around by having a belief in myself and trusting God and then doing what it took to get healthy again.
John Assaraf
#61. I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.
Trisha Yearwood
#62. There is absolutely nothing we can ever do that will cause God to forsake us. He will never turn away from us.
Daya Mata
#63. Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. Always see the good in everyone...learn to see through God's eyes no matter what...remember, the tables may turn tomorrow. You just never know!
Kemi Sogunle
#65. Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.
Marianne Williamson
#66. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours.
Thomas Heywood
#67. It is not your responsibility to explain what God is doing with your life. He has not provided enough information to figure it out. Instead, you are asked to turn loose and let God be God. Therein lies the secret to the "peace that transcends understanding.
Jen Hatmaker
#68. Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#69. Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#70. Oh, God, I know I am a sinner. I am sorry for my sins, and I want to turn from them. I trust Christ alone as my Savior, and I confess Him as my Lord. From this moment on, I want to serve Him and follow Him in the fellowship of His church. In Christ's name, I pray. Amen.
Billy Graham
#71. We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
Marianne Williamson
#72. Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
Alan Hirsch
#73. If you turn your nose up to people, God will turn down your prayers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.
Joyce Meyer
#75. Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Elizabeth George
#76. When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
#77. God can take what was meant for my harm and turn it around and use it to my advantage.
Joel Osteen
#78. Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.
Matthew Fox
#79. I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.
Mark Batterson
#80. Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.
John Calvin
#81. Even when light fades and darkness falls--as it does every single day, in every single life--God does not turn the world over to some other deity...Here is the testimony of faith; darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#82. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#83. Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.
Lynn Austin
#84. Lord God, Maker of all, when You give manna moments, may I give You thanks for the mystery. Because the manna that makes no sense - You will make it my sustenance. Today, in all the "what is it?" moments, turn me to give thanks for who You are.
Ann Voskamp
#85. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
John Ross Macduff
#86. God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!
Beth Moore
#87. To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
Frederick Buechner
#88. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? (Gal. 4:9)
Francis Chan
#89. The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
Martin Luther
#90. God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
Therese Of Lisieux
#91. Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.
Lee M. Sapp
#92. 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
#93. We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
Brother Lawrence
#94. If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.
Jim Cymbala
#95. All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. When we open our heart to receive God's word, God in-turn will open our eyes so we can see the answer to our problems in His Word.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#97. When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.
Emily Dickinson
#98. Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
William Cowper
#99. The womanist prophetess submits herself to God as a text to be read, indicted, and transformed so that she in turn can be a revolutionary, transformative force in the world.
Mitzi J. Smith
#100. The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
Khalil Gibran
