Using God Quotes

#1. This is the question: Are you using God to get something from Him? Or is God Himself the goal of your striving?

Matt Chandler

#2. Understand, by saying 'God,' I am merely using 'God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher.

Donna Tartt

#3. I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.

Frank Laubach

#4. It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.

Lionel Suggs

#5. Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

F. Huegel

#6. Life is a journey, and one thing's for sure: You don't see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We're privileged to be here, so instead of just using God's resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it - or at least leave it the same ...

Joel Cunningham

#7. As you read God's Word, always remember that it is something active, that it is doing something to you, for better or worse. When we hear or read the Word, we are not above it, using it for our own purposes. Rather, in the Word, God is doing something to us.

Anonymous

#8. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#9. If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.

Talib Kweli

#10. Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.

Marc Forster

#11. What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.

Frank Tipler

#12. Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.

Ravi Zacharias

#13. God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

Max Lucado

#14. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.

Lance Berkman

#15. There is no harm taking medication as it is God-given ability or utilizing the wisdom God gives to doctors and to prepare medications. But it also your responsibility to build faith for healing while using medication, and you must do that.

Paul Silway

#16. How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop.

Dave Eggers

#17. It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

Kim Fields

#18. Prayer is not our using of God; it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.

Billy Graham

#19. I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers.
"Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?"
"Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.

Melina Marchetta

#20. I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. I will always seek God. Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love; I find God in suffering. I've known for some time what my life's work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering.

Kayla Mueller

#21. Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Max Lucado

#22. Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.

Gladys Aylward

#23. God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Davis Bunn

#24. Every person has God-given gifts; when you're using those gifts in your life then you're fulfilling your purpose, and that is beautiful.

Shane Harper

#25. The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.

Anonymous

#26. I will be your God," is an unconditional undertaking on God's part to be "for us" (Rom. 8:31), "on our side" (Ps. 124:1-5), using all his resources for the furthering of the ultimate good of those ("us") to whom he thus pledges himself.

J.I. Packer

#27. If we are ever going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed - you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you?

Oswald Chambers

#28. We're using the gifts of God as if they themselves are gods.

Matt Chandler

#29. God so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow.

Sunday Adelaja

#30. The biblical way to express God's love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law - see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ.

Ray Comfort

#31. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but s living as servants [4] of God. 17 t Honor everyone. u Love the brotherhood. v Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Anonymous

#32. Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

Jimmy Carter

#33. For me, my faith is the reason I run. I definitely feel I have this amazing gift that God has blessed me with, and it's all about using it to the best of my ability.

Allyson Felix

#34. Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed by the strongest evidence that we have, to come to the best and most reasonable conclusion that God is the cause of everything - all without ever taking even a single step of blind faith.

Lewis N. Roe

#35. Our Father and our God, thank You for using people like me to spread Your Word to the world. I am the least likely person, I know, to be used for such a glorious work. Show me what You want me to do, Lord, and I'll do it. I know I can do it through the strength of Christ Jesus, my Lord. Amen.

Billy Graham

#36. man has two wings: one wing is his own will and the other wing is the will of God. Man has to learn to fly using both of them. Without using the wing of God's will, his flight is erroneous, erratic, it has no momentum.

Orage Alfred

#37. No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. My definition of sexy is not just using what you got from God, but also that you represent what you believe in. I don't want people to think I'm sexy for what I look like, I want them to find me sexy for who I am and what I do.

Jessica Biel

#39. If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.

Steven Tyler

#40. Satan's method has often been to imitate God.
Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.

Billy Graham

#41. A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

Monica Johnson

#42. I'd trusted in my own strength about so many things. I realized God delights in using the weak and fearful.

Colleen Coble

#43. How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?

Milton Friedman

#44. I've heard people using your songs as prayer, begging god in falsetto.

Warsan Shire

#45. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

Leo Rosten

#46. God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Richard Rohr

#47. If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Carol P. Christ

#48. I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.

Tim Salmon

#49. He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Tom DeLay

#50. When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to communicate things that God will endorse.

LeCrae

#51. God is able to really use a person, who puts all that he has got into his work, who works hard, sweating his guts out to the point of complete exhaustion, using the last of his strength

Sunday Adelaja

#52. Religion is using everything for God.

Henry Ward Beecher

#53. Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

Richard Stearns

#54. believe that desire is God-given, and that following that impulse is using your intuition. It will lead you to the correct place. Be a leader. Be an inspiration and declare yourself!

Mandy Ingber

#55. God can craft ten thousand tomorrows and shape a thousand dreams to fill every one of them. And He carries out this most ingenious 'crafting' and 'shaping' using the very cinders and ashes left by the fires that had originally destroyed our tomorrows and leveled our dreams.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#56. Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner

#57. Satan is masterful at using just enough of God's truth to capture a person's attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray.

Billy Graham

#58. Redhead, built in a way made you sure God's a man." "It didn't work out between you?" "For a while it did. She wasn't shy about using what she had. She wasn't shy about anything," Doyle added with a grin.

Nora Roberts

#59. God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.

Monica Johnson

#60. God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

Lysa TerKeurst

#61. Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. Tis better using France than trusting France;
Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
And with their helps only defend ourselves;
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

William Shakespeare

#63. George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."

Sam Hamill

#64. Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him.

Michael Whitworth

#65. I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something.

Shane Jones

#66. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

Pax Prentiss

#67. Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.

Paul Brunton

#68. God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads?

Ali Al-Ahmed

#69. If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.

Bert McCracken

#70. I was using," I tell her. "And God was my drug dealer."
She doesn't get it.
"Tripping on my own brain chemicals. The dope I was doing was already inside.

Neal Shusterman

#71. The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Mark Batterson

#72. God did not elect any sinner because He foresaw that he would believe, for the simple but sufficient reason that no sinner ever does believe until God gives him faith; just as no man sees until God gives him sight. Sight is God's gift, seeing is the consequence of my using His gift. So

Arthur W. Pink

#73. Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

Colin S. Smith

#74. If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

Henry Longhurst

#75. Christ taught that the kingdom of God was a community where each member served the others. He defined His ultimate purpose using that term. But in most churches, a few people carry the load.

J. Oswald Sanders

#76. Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

Rick Warren

#77. So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

Francis Schaeffer

#78. Some might call it manipulation, but I like to consider it simply using what God gave me. And the word manipulation is so ugly. It's what people say to disavow their own choices. If they end up never regretting their decision, does that mean that no one has manipulated them?

M.E. Thomas

#79. God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

Linda Sue Park

#80. God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

Jerry Bridges

#81. God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

Leonard Ravenhill

#82. God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Louie Giglio

#83. Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

Alan Powell

#84. The holy word of God is on everyone's lips ... but ... we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

Baruch Spinoza

#85. There is only one way to respect the substance of any purported God-given moral edict: consider it conscientiously in the full light of reason, using all the evidence at our command. No God that was pleased by displays of unreasoning love would be worthy of worship.

Daniel C. Dennett

#86. Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

J.D. Greear

#87. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Rick Warren

#88. [During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.

Emmanuel Jal

#89. God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#90. If you're in a life and death struggle, and I handed you a weapon, would you use it?

God has handed you the most power weapon: The Name of Jesus.
All He requires is that you practice using it.
Fire at will!

Matthew Akers

#91. God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

Frank E. Peretti

#92. And as God is everywhere, she couldn't live but to carry Him in her heart, with the worship of daily life, using the gift of every second bestowed upon her to bring honor and glory to her Savior.

Kristy Cambron

#93. I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

Benjamin Carson

#94. We learned that the body of Christ grows by the Word of Christ, flexing its muscles to serve, stretching out its hands to heal, and dreaming up creative ways to bless one another using the gifts God has given.

Gloria Furman

#95. In my experience, his reaction was typical of many churchmen when lay people like myself try to explain the irrational using the 'God's Plan' argument. They raise an eyebrow and look at you as if you're slightly bonkers.

Arthur Matthews

#96. Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.

Melanie Shankle

#97. As you search for your calling, do you attempt to find someone He is using in exactly the same way? Stop! Of the six billion people on this planet, that person may not exist - because God is creative.

Beth Moore

#98. But God, the ruler of the universe, takes his stand upon it, regulating it and directing everything in a saving manner by the helm of his wisdom, using, in truth, neither hands nor feet, nor any other part whatever such as belongs to created objects.

Philo Of Alexandria

#99. One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Alan Chambers

#100. ...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

Chris Marlow