When God Works Quotes

#1. When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

Gottfried Leibniz

#2. When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

Martin Luther

#3. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. God implants Spirit and zeal into our hearts in order to accomplish a work. When the work is done, a quiet rest remains. We do not have to push one another aside because God has prepared our works so that each one can keep out of one another's way. We only have to take heed that we do His works.

Johan Oscar Smith

#5. God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us;

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Fear dismembers and disfigures our perspective of God, making Him seem a powerless pawn controlled by our circumstances. But when we re-member the Lord and re-count His works, we begin to re-form our vision of His greatness in our hearts.

Kris Vallotton

#7. When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Ben Bova

#8. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

Thomas Mullen

#9. When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

Louis Pasteur

#10. I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

Jason Gray

#12. The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

Vincent De Paul

#13. God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.

Kathleen H. Hughes

#14. We serve a God that does His greatest works when it becomes impossible for us.

Rick Joyner

#15. When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'

Bill Cosby

#16. I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Joel Osteen

#17. When God begins his good works it is difficult to hold on, if you are in a passive position

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.

Selwyn Hughes

#21. [When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

Carrie Nation

#22. Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all 'discharge'. It is due to one's merit karmas that everything works according to one's wishes, but he claims, 'I did it' and when one faces losses, he will say, 'God did it' or 'my horoscope is unfavorable'.

Dada Bhagwan

#23. To believe God when He said He works all things together for good for those who love Him.

Lynette Eason

#24. It is God which worketh in you. He needs no one, but when faith is present He works through anyone.

A.W. Tozer

#25. A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous ...

John Calvin

#26. When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

James MacDonald

#27. When you don't have anything or anyone else on earth, all of a sudden God starts looking really good. Something about us needs to long for heaven. When everything is right and everything works - be honest, we don't long for heaven or for God. We just don

Jennie Allen

#28. the only combination that works for marriage is to make God the One and your spouse the two. When

Craig Groeschel

#29. But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into the act of praying; you are free to participate in the life of God.

Lauren F. Winner

#30. When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

Brian D. McLaren

#31. Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.

John Templeton

#32. 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

#33. When our motive for good works is to garner the praise of others, we trade the glory of God for the glory of men. Glorious Lord, forgive me for the times I have exchanged Your glory for the praise of others. Help me keep my focus on You and You alone, rather than on the admiration of others.

Ava Pennington

#34. It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Warren Beatty

#35. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.

Nick Vujicic

#36. When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#37. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.

Donna Lynn Hope

#38. It is easy to speak God's name and to record his glory on paper and walls; but to praise God with an upright heart, to bless him for his benevolence, to call upon him in every distress, and to seek consolation from him - those are truly the greatest works, though rarely seen, alongside faith. When

Martin Luther

#39. Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

Beth Moore

#40. God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#41. To embrace God is to embrace change. God does not operate by a predictable paradigm. He works through flux and chaos - and so should we. When crises come, don't panic - innovate! That's the essence of leadership.

Pat Williams

#42. God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

Leonard Sweet

#43. Self-confidence is not the temper which God uses for His instruments. He works with 'bruised reeds,' and breathes His strength into them. It is when a man says 'I can do nothing,' that he is fit for God to employ. 'When I am weak, then I am strong.' Moses

Alexander MacLaren

#44. God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Martin Luther

#45. There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

Angus Buchan

#46. For I have been in my preaching, especially when I have been engaged in the doctrine of life by Christ, without works, as if an angel of God had stood by at my back to encourage me:

John Bunyan

#47. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have, but the warmth of love can only be kindled in the heart by God's Spirit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#48. We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

Martin Luther

#49. When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

Tullian Tchividjian

#50. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.

Toni Morrison

#51. Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.

T. B. Joshua

#52. The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

Heber J. Grant

#53. Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

Luigi Orione

#54. In our day, deception becomes all the easier to arrange because so many Christians are no longer greatly shaped by Scripture. It is difficult to unmask subtle error when it aligns with the culture, deploys spiritual God-talk, piously cites a passage or two, and "works.

D. A. Carson

#55. When you face tests and persecution don't complain, but remember that everything works together for good for those who love God

Sunday Adelaja

#56. It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

David Jeremiah

#57. 4 But when the goodness of God and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us - not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Anonymous

#58. God says clearly that vengeance is His, and our position is to be one of faith in Him, waiting patiently and lovingly as He works justice in our lives. When

Joyce Meyer

#59. You glorify God when you do good works. The

Tim Challies

#60. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again.

Oliver Parker

#61. When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.

Lois Mowday Rabey

#62. The mystics and their "collected works." When one addresses oneself to God, and to God alone, as they claim to do, one should be careful not to write. God doesn't read ...

Emil Cioran

#63. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Hudson Taylor