75 Quotes About God That Speak of His Power, Love and Righteousness

If you are interested in knowing more about God, there is no better place than His own inspired word. The Bible is full of wisdom and guidance that provide plenty of direction for life. However, there are times when other people's writings may help provide a lot of insight and clarity. Their quotes about God can lead to an "aha moment" that sheds new light on what you have been reading or experiencing. God quotes like these then offer inspiration to learn more and keep paying attention to what is around you.

After getting inspired by quotes about the Creator of the universe, you may want to continue to delve into the Bible to study verses on a variety of topics like peace, hope or anxiety. The Bible itself tells the larger story of God's character, as well as his love, patience and plan for the whole world, after all. Enjoy reading these powerful God quotes that can help realign your perspective during a busy week.

75 Best God Quotes

1. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” — C.S. Lewis

2. “We must make a study of our God: what he loves, what he hates, how he speaks and acts. We cannot imitate a God whose features and habits we have never learned. We must make a study of him if we want to become like him. We must seek his face.” — Jen Wilkin

3. “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” — A.W. Tozer

4. “Our task is not to somehow inject God into our work but to join God in the work he is already doing in and through our vocational lives.” — Tish Harrison Warren

5. “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” — Max Lucado

6. “If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.” — R.C. Sproul

7. “God is the ultimate Creator and He's crafted all things for His glory and my good." — Lore Ferguson Wilbert

8. "The central basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.” — Timothy Keller

9. “True intimacy with God always brings humility.” — Beth Moore

10. “God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.” — Charles Spurgeon

11. “Prayer is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.” — Charles Stanley

12. “The greatest story ever told is of a God who so loved the world that he chose to suffer for it." — K.J. Ramsey

13. “The psalmist declares, 'This is the day that the Lord has made.' This one. We wake not to a vague or general mercy from a far-off God. God, in delight and wisdom, has made, named, and blessed this average day. What I in my weakness see as another monotonous day in a string of days, God has given as a singular gift.” — Tish Harrison Warren

14. “The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 a.m. for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access.” — Timothy Keller

15. “We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.” — Dwight L. Moody

16. “Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.” — Beth Moore

17. "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” — Corrie ten Boom

18. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.” — C.S. Lewis

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God Is Good Quotes

19. “There is never a moment when God isn't moving toward the world in love." — Rich Villodas

20. “God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus." — Max Lucado

21. “If God is holy, then He can’t sin. If God can’t sin, then He can’t sin against me. If He can’t sin against me, shouldn’t that make Him the most trustworthy being there is?” — Jackie Hill Perry

22. "We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

23. “Joy is what God gives, not what we work up." — Eugene Peterson

24. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” — C.S. Lewis

25. “‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Before the water turned into wine, someone had to do the ordinary, tiresome task of filling the water pots. We want the new wine to just appear, but Jesus calls us to fill the jars first. In short, God often wants us to participate in our own transformation." — Rich Villodas

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26. “If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.” — Charles Stanley

27. “When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.” — Eugene Peterson

28. “Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.” — Billy Graham

29. “God never made a promise that was too good to be true.” — D.L. Moody

30. “The Bible does tell us who we are and what we should do, but it does so through the lens of who God is. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand.” — Jen Wilkin

31. “If I love God, I must love people. I don’t have the choice to choose when.” — Jackie Hill Perry

32. “You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” — Rick Warren

33. “An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one, He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.” — A.W. Tozer

34. “There’s a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.” — J.I. Packer

35. “May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

36. “God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” — Martin Luther

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Short Quotes About God

37. “If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God.” — Jen Wilkin

38. “In many instances I have felt the power of God transforming the fatigue of despair into the buoyancy of hope." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

39. “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

40. “Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.” — R.C. Sproul

41. “God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.” — Martin Luther

42. “God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.” — Max Lucado

43. “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.” — A.W. Tozer

44. “God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.” — Charles Spurgeon

45. “Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.” — Charles Stanley

46. “When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.” — Dr. David Jeremiah

47. “Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.” — Tony Evans

48. “The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.” — John Calvin

49. “Obeying the will of God takes priority over satisfying cultural expectations.” — Tony Evans

50. “Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.” — Beth Moore

51. “If I am fully known and not rejected by God, how much more ought I to extend grace to my neighbor, whom I know only in part?” — Jen Wilkin

52. “To tell you about what God has done for my soul is to invite you into my worship.” — Jackie Hill Perry

53. “I don't know how, but I know Who." — Beth Moore

54. “To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.” — Tony Evans

Inspirational Quotes About God

55. “As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.” — R.C. Sproul

56. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” — C.S. Lewis

57. “Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.” — John Calvin

58. “The one who is worthy of worship, glory, and fanfare spent decades in obscurity and ordinariness. As if the incarnation itself is not mind-bending enough, the incarnate God spent his days quietly, a man who went to work, got sleepy, and lived a pedestrian life among average people.” — Tish Harrison Warren

59. “When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.” — Jonathan Edwards

60. “As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now should be trusted to the end.” — Charles Spurgeon

61. "God’s specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don’t have the need that exceeds His power.” — Beth Moore

62. “No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.” — Dwight L. Moody

63. “He is so much greater than the greatest thing and much more glorious than the most glorious glory the eyes could see. Knowing this, He becomes the aim of all our doing. Because, if God is bigger than we can imagine, we are wasting our time to chase after something or someone lesser than Him. And because we know that He is our all in all, in our temptations, our trials, and our victories, we must place our ultimate identity not in who we are, but in who we know God to be.” — Jackie Hill Perry

64. “There is no task too small or too routine to reflect God’s glory and worth." — Tish Harrison Warren

65. “As we place our dependence upon God, an incredible freedom and peace will begin to rest in our hearts. And reaching that point in our lives makes every failure worth it.” — Charles F. Stanley

66. “To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark that is faith.” – C.H. Spurgeon

67. “Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God’s dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.” — J. I. Packer

68. “Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God’s creatures is under his hand and care and that nothing happens by chance." — John Calvin

69. “A vision of God high and lifted up reveals to me my sin and increases my love for him. Grief and love lead to genuine repentance, and I begin to be conformed to the image of the One I behold.” — Jen Wilkin

70. “God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile." — Max Lucado

71. “The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes because God is interested in good craftsmanship.” — Martin Luther

72. "Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it. And I might not have felt like it, but I had no choice but to believe Him.” — Jackie Hill Perry

73. "May God remind us daily—no matter what kind of obstacles we face—that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.” — Beth Moore

74. “God is able to take your life, with all of the heartaches, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.” — Charles Swindoll

75. “God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans.” — David Jeremiah

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