Top 100 God Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best god quotes ever written, picked out of the full god archive on QuoteForever. You will find Dave Barry, Charles Spurgeon, Andy Stanley and Billy Graham among them.

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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

3

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

4

Man proposes, God disposes.

5

Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

6

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

7

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

8

Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

9

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

10

God helps those who help themselves.

11

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

12

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God ... - Thomas Fuller 14

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.

16

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

17

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

18

Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.

19

God always strives together with those who strive.

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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

21

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

22

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

23

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

24

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

25

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

26

To know God is to be adjusted to daily living.

27

On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

28

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

29

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

30

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

31

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

32

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

33

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

34

The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

35

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

36

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

37

Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.

38

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

39

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

40

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

41

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

42

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

43

God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.

44

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

45

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

46

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

47

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

48

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

49

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

50

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

51

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

52

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

53

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

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Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

55

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.

56

Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

57

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

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God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

59

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

60

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

61

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

62

We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.

63

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

64

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

65

How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?

66

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

67

Heaven is the presence of God.

68

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

69

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

70

In every moment you are someone new and therefore can be and do anything you wish to be and do, totally unlimited, unrestrained, made in the image of the Infinite.

71

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

72

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

73

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

74

Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.

75

Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights.

76

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

77

If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

78

We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

79

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

80

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

81

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

82

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

83

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

84

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

85

We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

86

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

87

I've always seen the bright lights of the angels, and I know that lower-entities can't disguise this light, because it only comes from the Love of God.

88

God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.

89

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

90

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

91

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

92

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

93

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

95

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

96

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

97

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

98

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

99

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

100

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

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