Quotes About God

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord. – J.I. Packer, Christian theologian

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. – Mary C. Crowley

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust. – Hudson Taylor

If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.  – Ronald Reagan

God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray. – Our Daily Bread

Prayer is a choice. For us to pray to give thanks, or to voice our questions and doubts shows that we are choosing to leave an opening in our spirits. Without this opening, there is no vessel, no place into which God can breathe. – Joanna Laufer, author

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. – St. Augustine

You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day. – Fredrik Wisloff, Norwegian theologian and Christian preacher

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done. – Hudson Taylor

God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them. – Author Unknown

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world, the better the world will be. – E.M. Bounds, author

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. – Eleanor Powell

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. – Brother Lawrence, author and lay brother of the Carmelite monastery

Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him. – St. John Chrysostom

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. – Augustine

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. – Mignon McLaughlin

Let God’s promises shine on your problems. – Corrie Ten Boom

If a man could make a single rose we would give him an empire; yet flowers no less beautiful are scattered in profusion over the world, and no one regards them. -Martin Luther

If a man is to be a pillar in the temple of his God by and by, he must be some kind of a prop in God’s house to-day. We are here to support, not to be supported. No one can be a living stone on the foundations of the Spiritual House which is God’s habitation without being a foundation to the stones above him. – Maltbie Babcock.

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift. – Author Unknown

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” – C.S. Lewis

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. – Hudson Taylor

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don’t need to know where you’re going if you know God is leading. – Our Daily Bread

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you”? – William A. Ward, author

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God’s laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. – Martin H. Fischer

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself. – Miguel de Unamuno

Most people wish to serve God – but only in an advisory capacity. – Author Unknown

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation – of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme – then rises in our mind the thought of God. – Vincent van Gogh

I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is. – Mignon McLaughlin

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. – Martin H. Fischer

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there. – Mignon McLaughlin

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa

I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. – Quentin Crisp

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. – Diana Robinson

No pillow so soft as God’s promise. – Author Unknown

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. – Author Unknown

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. – Rabindranath Tagore

When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above.  Let Him help put you together. – Amethyst Snow-Rivers

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? – Rebecca Harding Davis

Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. – Romans 10:13

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. – Peace Pilgrim Quote

Quotes About God Continue Below….

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. – Voltaire

All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen. – Author Unknown

Some people talk about finding God – as if He could get lost. – Author Unknown

Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him – you try too hard, friend – drop to your knees and listen to him, he’ll hear you better that way. – Ever Garrison

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. – Garth Brooks

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone. – Author Unknown

Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside. – Author Unknown

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. – Anatole France

God enters by a private door into each individual. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. – Saint Augustine

A man with God is always in the majority. – John Knox

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. – Victor Hugo

God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. – David Nicholas

Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession? All I have teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What do you think of God,” the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, “He’s not a think, he’s a feel.” – Paul Frost

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. – Author Unknown

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. – C.S. Lewis

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

God is the perfect poet. – Robert Browning

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. – Jean Paul Richter

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him. – Pearl Bailey

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. – Alfred North Whitehead

We can never escape God’s lovely essence. – Sonnett Branche