Top 100 Wish To God Quotes
#1. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
Steve Wozniak
#2. One hundred years from now, the people who come after us, for whom our lives are showing the way
will they think of us kindly? Will they remember us with a kind word? I wish to God I could think so.
Anton Chekhov
#3. I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.
Louie Gohmert
#4. You guys think if I don't hear bad things, then they won't exist anymore. But you know what? They still do exist, and I do end up hearing them. And I wish to God that I could have heard them from the people I love first
Richelle Mead
#5. I will always be your father . . . and I wish to God I wasn't.
Nalini Singh
#6. I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there' ... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.
Jeff Lindsay
#7. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J.D. Salinger
#8. I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#9. My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#10. I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk - just once - in prose like other people.
Dorothy Dunnett
#11. I wish to God I had an answer for you right now. All I know is that ... I'm not turning this car around. I'm going home with you ... and we'll see what happens from there.
Tere Michaels
#12. I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.
Georgette Heyer
#13. Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?
Zadie Smith
#14. Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
Stephen King
#15. I wish to God I could talk to her the way she wants me to, besides forever making her guess what I'm thinking. Why can't I find the words?
Donal Ryan
#16. He nods, eagerly. I wish to God I didn't have to add that 'eagerly' onto that description.
Charlotte Stein
#17. I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.
John Steinbeck
#18. I miss you. I miss your smile. I miss your hand in mine. I miss your laugh when you're nervous. I wish to god I was hearing it right now. That hurricane was the best thing that ever happened to me because it brought you into my life.
Jessica Clare
#19. I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,
Charles Babbage
#20. I wish to God I may die if I don't love you. There ain't no sky above us if I don't love you
James Baldwin
#21. I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office ...
Louie Gohmert
#22. My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#23. Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.
Pope Gregory I
#24. If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
Erma Bombeck
#25. For him, the writer should be the very devil, a disturber of dreams and wrecker of fatuous utopias, the bringer-in of reality, and rival of God in his wish to make worlds.
Hanif Kureishi
#26. Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.
Steven Furtick
#27. Our life is a gymnasium of desire ... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
Saint Augustine
#28. I wish to make my fortune with you.' 'Well, you can forget about that, for a start,' said Francis Crawford. 'And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God's sake hang on to it. Because we're going in the opposite direction.
Dorothy Dunnett
#29. Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.
Tito Colliander
#30. Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
Ramakrishna
#31. I hate to wish bad things on you, son, but I hope you get the privilege someday of having no one to lean on but God. It changes a person. It sure changed me.
Gina Holmes
#32. I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
Otto Penzler
#33. I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
Tullian Tchividjian
#34. When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
Saint Ignatius
#35. 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
#36. I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jan Hus
#37. I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.
J. Vernon McGee
#38. I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#39. Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.
Andy Murray
#40. We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.
William Tyndale
#41. Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done ... Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#42. In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.
Maya Angelou
#43. Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.
Lisa Bedrick
#44. Your God speaks of love, bur restricts who you love. I do not wish to be told who I can or cannot love. If I cannot love honestly, then it isn't love.
Jennis Slaughter
#45. Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.
Anne Perry
#46. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. If we wish to truly experience a life that makes an eternal difference, the power within us is not enough. It is the power God offers that matters.
Dillon Burroughs
#48. Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.
Thomas A Kempis
#49. I wish you had a 'little missus' who could pet you as I used to pet papa when he had a headache. I should like to be your 'little missus' myself, poor dear! Good night-good night. God bless you!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#50. 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
#51. I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'
Wayne Coyne
#52. Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.
Dan Barker
#53. When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.
Paulo Coelho
#54. I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
Connie Nielsen
#56. In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.
Salman Rushdie
#57. I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
David Livingstone
#58. When things aren't working out as you wish, be patient. Stop trying to move ahead of God. His timing is perfect. Trust Him.
Nicky Gumbel
#59. God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God.
Lawrence Durrell
#60. Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.
Paul Of The Cross
#61. Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
Augustine Of Hippo
#62. I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me ... If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
Meister Eckhart
#63. Our usefulness and happiness depend upon us living near to God, for you well know that God alone can make us useful and happy. If we wish to grow in grace, we must read the Bible much and pray much; and not only read and pray, but act. - Samuel Pond (Sr.)
Samuel William Pond
#64. I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [ ... ] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.
LeAnn Rimes
#66. God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
John Ortberg
#67. Guys said you did good today." He made a face. He'd done his job, nothing more. God knew he'd have taken on any threat to protect Taya. "Wish I'd been able to get more out of the bastard before he went to his seventy-two virgin dating service in the sky.
Kaylea Cross
#68. A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.
Julia Cameron
#69. The cup flew out of my hands and my God was it beautiful. I wish the Planet Earth video crew were there to film it at 100 frames per second so that we could watch it again at super slow motion in all of it's glory.
David Bowick
#70. Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo
#71. Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.
Max Lucado
#72. Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.
R.C. Sproul
#73. But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland.
Augustine Of Hippo
#74. To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith.
James E. Faust
#75. Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.
Stevie Smith
#76. God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
Charles R. Swindoll
#77. Murder - the wish to do murder - is something quite different. It - how shall I say? - it defies God.
Agatha Christie
#78. If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.
Saint John Chrysostom
#79. I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.
Mary Engelbreit
#80. Had trouble again with twine. Mad enough to wish I was a bad tornado. Swore at God.' 18
Olivia Laing
#81. We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Harold S. Kushner
#82. I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.
Curt Flood
#83. I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.
Orson Scott Card
#84. It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.
Laurence Sterne
#85. God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.
Patrick Suskind
#86. I hear people say, "It happened for a reason," or "It's part of God's plan," and I wish that made sense to me but it doesn't.
Mary-Louise Parker
#87. Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
Auberon Herbert
#88. This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Mikhail Bakunin
#89. It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.
Basilea Schlink
#90. Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened?
Lisa Samson
#91. I can take a joke," she tells me, sounding insulted.
"Yeah? When?"
"When it's not being delivered by a childish jackass who thinks he's God's gift to women."
"I am not childish." God's gift on the other hand? My record speaks for itself.
"Oh, bite me."
I wish.
Emma Chase
#92. It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
Saint Augustine
#93. Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish."
"God, you're the best," I told him.
"I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.
John Green
#94. I hope we win the game tonight." "I hope I pass my final tomorrow." We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It's knowing that he's in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him.
Max Lucado
#95. Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.
Mary Kay Ash
#96. O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter ...
James Joyce
#97. God help me, I'm gonna make sure we get out of this alive and I'm going to kill that son of a bitch ... I'm gonna make him wish he never stepped foot in this town -Emerson Shaw
Justin Bienvenue
#98. I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.
Stephen Chbosky
#99. Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
D. A. Carson
#100. True worship must worship God as He exists, not as we wish Him to be.
James R. White
