Top 100 What God Is Quotes
#1. When you are down to nothing, God is up to somethng. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you.
Robert Schuler
#2. Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!
Paula White
#4. Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#5. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.
Karen Armstrong
#6. We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
Saint Augustine
#7. She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. I am extremely thankful for my family. I am very thankful for what God is allowing me to do artistically. What a dream come true for me! That I get the opportunity every single day to use my talent for His glory.
Mary Engelbreit
#9. We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is ... BUT GOD IS! -RVM
R.v.m.
#10. Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.
Rajneesh
#11. If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.
Michael Sheen
#12. That is what God is for. Worry doesna help - prayer does. Sometimes,
Diana Gabaldon
#13. I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#14. The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would. GOD
Jerry Bridges
#15. The truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.
Os Guinness
#16. I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were a horse, and you were asked to describe what a human being was like. You couldn't do it;
John Shelby Spong
#17. The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.
Priscilla Shirer
#18. The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
Jupiter Hammon
#19. Prayer isn't just about asking for things. It's taking time to hear what God is saying, too, just like any good conversation. Once we finally stop talking and demanding and begging for things, it's easier to hear what God is trying to say to us.
Lynn Austin
#20. Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
Henri Nouwen
#21. You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing ... It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
Oswald Chambers
#22. What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.
Warren Ballentine
#24. What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
Philo
#25. I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
Reverend Malcolm Boyd
#26. Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.
Mark Batterson
#27. If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.
Andy Stanley
#28. The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.
Bill Johnson
#29. You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.
David Lloyd-Jones
#30. Everybody knows what God is,' said his mother. 'You feel what God is, don't you?
David Guterson
#31. Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
Thomas Aquinas
#32. You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar.
Malak El Halabi
#33. Mercy, GOD, mercy!": the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ. In
Eugene H. Peterson
#34. Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities ...
Hugh Martin
#35. I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.
Brenda Hillman
#36. As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.
Oswald Chambers
#37. Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.
Joseph Girzone
#38. While you may not be able to understand exactly what God is doing, you can trust that He is doing something. He has your best interests at heart. And He will make everything in your life beautiful in His perfect time.
Stormie O'martian
#39. Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
Max Lucado
#40. If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it.
Arthur Wallis
#42. Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.
Wayne Dyer
#43. You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you
Sunday Adelaja
#44. When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged ... I rejoice that I am a part of it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#45. If what you call 'god' means [Shiva, Jesus, Allah or Buddha] then I say he doesn't exist at all...
But if you meant [love, truth and kindness] I reply : "That is what 'god' is
Vedang Sati
#46. The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)
Scot McKnight
#47. I'm telling you right now, you'll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!
Rodney Howard-Browne
#48. When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it's a destiny moment, don't wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.
Joel Osteen
#49. You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.
Rosanne Cash
#50. Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
Oprah Winfrey
#51. Refuse to accept anything negative, which you see around you. Declare in the spiritual realm what God is saying.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.
John Shelby Spong
#53. mission is what "God is doing in the world through the church, and even without the church, to bring his creation to its consummation: unity and fullness in Jesus Christ.
Sarah Bessey
#54. We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.
Beth Moore
#55. Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.
Billy Graham
#56. This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
Jerry Bridges
#57. The Bible doesn't teach you to follow rules. It is a picture of Jesus. While words may tell you what God is like and even what he may want from you, you cannot do any of it on your own. Life and living are in him and in no other.
Wm. Paul Young
#58. Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#59. Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
Richard Foster
#60. Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our
character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world.
Donald Miller
#61. It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
Nicholas Mosley
#62. Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote about 'wounded healers.' I've come to see that there's no other kind. We are all wounded, and we are all called to take part in what God is doing to bring healing to those around us.
Mary Lou Redding
#63. Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.
Barbara G. Walker
#64. 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
#65. As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.
Henri Nouwen
#66. Never mind what God is doing. What are you doing? That's called interspection.
Art Hochberg
#67. We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.
Tony Dungy
#68. I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.
Joyce Meyer
#69. When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.
Ogden Nash
#70. Coaching is a non-directive conversation in which the coach asks a person questions to prompt reflection into what God is saying to that person. The coaching process empowers the person to develop custom solutions for his or her problems or goals.
Keith Webb
#71. How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.
Jerry Bridges
#72. We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
Os Guinness
#73. It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.
Robert Farrar Capon
#74. The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.
Wayne Dyer
#75. God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
Eckhart Tolle
#76. If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.
Thomas Cogswell Upham
#77. When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.
Iyanla Vanzant
#78. We underestimate God and we overestimate evil. We don't see what God is doing and conclude that he is doing nothing. We see everything that evil is doing and think it is in control of everyone.
Eugene H. Peterson
#79. What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#80. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
Edward De Bono
#81. It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
Henry David Thoreau
#82. If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'
clean on the outside, dead on the inside.
Tullian Tchividjian
#83. We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.
Johannes Scotus Eriugena
#84. The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?
N. T. Wright
#85. The government to you is what God is to agnostics
only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Amitav Ghosh
#86. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
Mother Teresa
#87. I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.
Jon Krakauer
#88. If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
Eugene H. Peterson
#89. When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.
James MacDonald
#90. What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
Rob Bell
#91. Sometimes the fact that there is nothing about you that makes you the right person to do something is exactly what God is looking for.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#92. We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.
A.W. Tozer
#93. Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.
Frank Wilczek
#94. Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!
Joel Osteen
#95. The secret is this: When you have the single mind, you look on your circumstances as God-given opportunities for the furtherance of the gospel, and you rejoice at what God is going to do instead of complaining about what God did not do.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#96. Worship is critical in sustaining what God is doing. As God is honored in worship, His presence will continue.
Rodney Burton
#97. To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
Steve Earle
#98. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Anonymous
#99. If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.
Joyce Meyer
#100. People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.
Jim Cymbala
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