In the beginning and until the end of time, there will always be God. And during the highest and lowest moments of our lives, we remain hopeful and grateful to Him. Despite the mystery, His words and works echo through eternity. So let’s celebrate His greatness and love with these 123 God quotes.
God Quotes
1. God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis
2. Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God’s heartbeat for humanity. – Christine Caine
3. The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is. – Cliff Richard
4. Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man. – Hugh Black
5. To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances; to seek him, the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. – Raphael Simon
6. All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do. – A.B. Simpson
7. When the solution is simple, God is answering. – Albert Einstein
8. Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. – Saint Augustine
9. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. – Jim Elliot
10. God already knows what we’re made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we’re made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times. – John Bytheway
11. God always strives together with those who strive. – Aeschylus
12. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Teresa
13. My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two. – Anne F. Beiler
14. Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. – Charles Stanley
15. Anything under God’s control is never out of control. – Charles R. Swindoll
16. God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress. – Kelly Clarkson
17. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. – Criss Jami
18. There is nothing you could ever do that would change the way God feels about you. – John Burke
19. He is the same God, yesterday, today, and forever. He is our heavenly Father who is merciful, kind, and full of compassion. – Vincent KMC
20. God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. – Arthur Young
21. Whether it is the big picture of God that is distorted, or little tidbits of Him that have been twisted over the years, we need to make sure our definition of God is in line with Scripture. – Michelle Lynn Brown
22. We are finite beings, and God is infinitely greater than any thoughts we can contain about divine reality in our wondrous but tiny minds. – Miroslav Volf
23. The truth is that God is the source of all goodness and good things: “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above.” (James 1:17, NASB). – Kevin Gerald
24. Consider for a moment what Scripture tells us about who Jesus truly is…Scripture reveals to us that Jesus is God. – John Stange
25. God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change. – Beth Moore
26. I have learned through the years that if God tells you to do something, then you better do it. Whenever I have ignored the voice of God, the results have always been tragic. – Michael Yeager
27. However God is wise, creative, faithful, positive and responsible and does high quality work, so therefore you as a His son or daughter should also aim to do work that reflects these characteristics. – Susan G. Owen
28. Yes, we have a loving and forgiving God who understands when we mess up, but if we mess up because of lack of preparation, effort, and a don’t care attitude, then the coach is going to recognize that, and God will as well. – Ramsey Coutta
29. Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety; a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than he used to be. – J.I. Packer
30. Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us. – Nicky Gumbel
31. God is in charge, and he will always be in charge. – Jimmy Davis
32. God isn’t intimidated by your questions, and He isn’t surprised by your doubts. – Cary Schmidt
33. When we come to the end of our rope, that is where we find God. – Adam Cumpston
34. For God is not the author of confusion but of peace – 1 Corinthians 14:33
35. If your mind is pure, you will see God in everything and in everyone. – Myles Munroe
36. The beauty of the character of God is that every one of His attributes complements each other. – Jimmy Che
37. God is the source of all power, and prayer is essential to experiencing His power in our lives. – Gwen Smith
38. God sees things differently than we do. God looks at you differently than you look at yourself. – John Herrick
39. God gives much more lasting assurance in your spirit than anyone on Earth can. – Brian L. Summy
40. God is love. God proved His love not by His need of us, but by His giving to us. – T. D. Jakes
41. I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That’s how it often is. God’s voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. – Nicholas Sparks
42. Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
43. Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. – Dean Koontz
44. Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him. – Gordon B. Hinckley
45. 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 Brontë
46. God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is ‘no’. – Dan Brown
47. What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. – Hans Urs von Balthasar
48. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. – A.W. Tozer
49. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. – Meister Eckhart
50. You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude? – Paulo = Coelho
51. It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need. – Tyler Perry
52. Do your best and let God do the rest. – Ben Carson
53. The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed. – Michael Phillips
54. But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through. – Francis Chan
55. When your will is God’s will, you will have your will. – Charles Spurgeon
56. God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears. – Amit Ray
57. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire. – Joseph Smith
58. The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. – Thomas à Kempis
59. We’re called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps–and to leave the results up to God. – Alex Harris
60. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. – Corrie ten Boom
61. Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. – Rick Warren
62. Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
– Santa Teresa de Jesús
63. The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.” – Joshua Harris
64. I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
65. Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey. – Yann Martel
66. I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen. – Martin Luther
67. Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.” – Bob Goff
68. Don’t sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself. – Morris Gleitzman
69. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything. – Henry Miller
70. God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. – Pablo Picasso
71. But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me. – Michael Jackson
72. God’s grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God’s grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word … it’s that God makes beautiful things out of even my own shit. Grace isn’t about God creating humans and flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace – like saying, “Oh, it’s OK, I’ll be the good guy and forgive you.” It’s God saying, “I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.” – Nadia Bolz-Weber
73. There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God. – Thomas Aquinas
74. Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it’s the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God. – Eben Alexander
75. All that is not God is death. – George MacDonald
76. Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is… One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation… Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God’s love, by man’s basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a “stranger” in a random universe…The human being develops when … his soul comes to know itself and the truths that God has implanted deep within, when he enters into dialogue with himself and his Creator… It is not by isolation that man establishes his worth, but by placing himself in relation with others and with God. – Pope Benedict XVI
77. God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. – Sir Francis Bacon
78. There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. – John Fowles
79. God dances with the outcast. – Steven James
80. God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. – Voltaire
81. No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! – Joyce Meyer
82. God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
83. Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company… You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. – John Piper
84. Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. – Aldous Huxley
85. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. – Joel Osteen
86. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. – Saint Ignatius
88. The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. – Swami Vivekananda
89. You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. – Bob Dylan
90. I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road. – Pat Buckley
91. To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna
92. There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. – Guru Nanak
93. One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. – Tryon Edwards
94. Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
95. God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn’t choose rain only for bad people. – Mariano Rivera
96. We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers
97. Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. – Eric Hoffer
98. God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. – Marcus Garvey
99. We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it’s really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what you face, you know, that you’re going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He’s going to get you through it. – Kelly Rowland
100. God’s omniscience warns us to avoid sin and comforts us when we wonder about the future. God knows what we know and everything we don’t. – Dr. David Jeremiah
101. Hope is trust in God’s promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future. – James E. Faust
102. God didn’t give up on me. I am somebody in God’s eyes… Let me be a prime example of how I’ve been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over. – Fantasia Barrino
103. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. – Bernie Siegel
104. Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. – Sai Baba
105. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. – Robert H. Schuller
106. Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. – John Muir
107. God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart. – Saint Bernard
108. The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that’s very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward. – Ben Carson
109. When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. – Ravi Zacharias
110. If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even ‘through the valley of the shadow of death.’ – Adam Hamilton
111. In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source. – Reinhard Bonnke
112. The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. – Allyson Felix
113. If you tell God no because He won’t explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit. – Charles Stanley
114. The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him. – Charles R. Swindoll
115. God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character. – John Ortberg
116. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. – Billy Graham
117. I’ve always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening. – Yoel Romero
118. All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God. – Said Nursi
119. It’s like, if you’re on a ship, and you’re sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn’t mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn’t mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He’ll send you another boat to get you to your destination. – Columbus Short
120. If I am not, may God put me there;
and if I am, may God so keep me.
– Joan of Arc
121. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks. – Regina Brett
122. God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart. – Ellen G. White
123. Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers. – Hans Christian Andersen