Top 56 Wilderness God Quotes
#1. God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.
Jan L. Richardson
#3. Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
Dave Barry
#5. The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling
Sunday Adelaja
#6. Whether you are living in a wilderness of poverty or loneliness or sorrow, God's promises, love, and protection are just as available to you now as they were to Hagar.
Ann Spangler
#7. When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
Khalil Gibran
#8. The fatherless son had two new moons in his forty days in the wilderness, the second one telling him it was time to become God and enter the beast of history.
Jim Harrison
#10. I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
James Fenimore Cooper
#11. God wants His people to be a voice in the wilderness
Sunday Adelaja
#12. I believe that the wilderness is where God is found.
Jonathan Kozol
#14. Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. 18 They j tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. 19 They spoke against God, saying, k Can God l spread a table in the wilderness? 20 m He struck the rock so that water gushed out
Anonymous
#16. I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
Guglielmo Marconi
#17. None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
Thomas Cole
#18. The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. The greatest wonder of my life is how God feed me in the wilderness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.
Thaddeus Mason Harris
#21. Nothing exists; all is a dream. God - man - the world - the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars - a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space - and you!
Mark Twain
#22. Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.
Dave Barry
#23. You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.
Max Lucado
#24. I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
Bob Brown
#25. Sometimes when God wishes to activate the position of the believers, He allows them to be trapped in the wilderness
Sunday Adelaja
#26. The wilderness is a place where we can lean on God and trust His promises, but it's also a place to discover that the arms He provides and the ears that listen to our fears sometimes belong to flesh-and-blood people.
Lynn Austin
#27. God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
Martin Luther
#28. Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.
Dwight L. Moody
#29. Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.
Amy Layne Litzelman
#30. All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
John Muir
#31. The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points
his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
Thomas Paine
#32. God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
James Russell Lowell
#33. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]
Edward T. Welch
#35. Those whom God has mercy in store for he first brings into a wilderness.
Stacey Thacker
#36. Silent rushes the swift Lord
Through ruined systems still restored,
Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
Plants with worlds the wilderness;
Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
House and tenant go to ground,
Lost in God, in Godhead found.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
Max Anders
#38. Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details - the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet all working together to maintain the atmosphere and the soil.
Timothy Goodwin
#39. thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.
Matthew Henry
#40. I always thought that 'wilderness' was somewhere where God wasn't. It took me a long time to learn that 'wilderness' is a mighty sacred place.
Sylvia Dickey Smith
#41. I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names.
Penelope Lively
#43. In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
John Muir
#45. God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.
Geoffrey Wood
#46. Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.
Michael Catt
#47. An impersonal force might be leading you to a wilderness of perfect flatness or a peak of perfect height. But only a personal God can possibly be leading you (if, indeed, you are being led) to a city with just streets and architectural proportions,
G.K. Chesterton
#48. Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.
Dave Barry
#49. There are times when God draws us into the wilderness but He does so for a purpose and never with the intention that we make permanent camp there.
Katherine J. Walden
#50. Bare heights of loneliness ... a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
Amy Carmichael
#52. In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.
Frederick William Robertson
#54. ...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
Henry David Thoreau
#55. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.
Harold Bell Wright
#56. Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
Joyce Meyer
