Spiritual and Godly Quotes

Spiritual and Godly Quotes

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn’t give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need. Eric Davis

Built into human makeup is a longing for a ‘more’ that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. Huston Smith

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. 
Frances Gourley

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow. Diane Dreher

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat. Angela Martinez

God comes to us before we go to him. God came to Abraham when there was nothing to come to, just an old man at a dead end. But that’s God for you. James Van Tholen

God doesn’t need your capabilities. He needs your availability. Dorothy L. Brooks

God is the great physician. His specialty is heart transplants. 
God keeps an infinite equilibrium in creation; in every conflict, there’s an opportunity to serve God and restore that equilibrium. Everything points you in that direction.
Martin Tomback


God will probably not be interested in how much we included in our day, but how much of our day included him. Allia Zobel-Nolan

Grace is uncontrollable, arbitrary to our senses, apparently unmerited. It is utterly free, ferociously strong, and about as mysterious a thing as you could imagine.Brian Doyle

Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment. Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr.

He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in. David Letterman

Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life. Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that’s a sure sign that it’s true. Anthony Destefano

I believe God only gives three answers to prayer: One, yes. Two, not yet. Three, I have something better in mind. Arthur Caliandro

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility….And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better. Rick Moody

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before. Heather Mercer

I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles. Jane Seymour

I lived in a project and…didn’t have a good education. But…I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.
Evander Holyfield

I’m Jewish, but I believe what Christ said: ‘What you do for the least of my people, you do for me.’ Arnold Abbott

I’ve often thought, I’m nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God’s not impressed by eloquence; he’s impressed by our longing for him.  Stormie Omartian

It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy—not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal. Naomi Levy

Just keep asking, ‘God if I can’t have what I want, then help me to know what it is you want me to have.’ Know in your heart there is a treasure much greater than the one you have been asking for. John E. Welshons

May you be poor in misfortunes and rich in blessings. Irish proverb

Science, you might say, has discovered that our existence is infinitely improbable, and hence a miracle. John Horgan

Spirituality isn’t static. It’s an evolving optimism that won’t let hardship get the best of you. Judith Orloff

The significance and joy in my science comes in the occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, ‘So that’s how God did it!’ Henry “Fritz” Schaefer III

The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life. 
Aurora Levins Morales

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with greater joy, peace, and happiness. Jimmy Carter

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering. Lee Jampolksy

There is a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.
Dalai Lama

Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God. Lonni Collins Pratt

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God. We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate. Ray Bradbury

We do not need to seek to become unique or rehearse to become diverse. God made us that way. Glen A. Johnson

We must surround ourselves, in all our lives, with the fortress of community. Sometimes faith works, sometimes ritual works, but always, God is with us when we are there and care for one another. Claudia Highbaugh

Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now. Certainly I’ll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through.  Bret Lott

What God leads me to, God leads me through.Rev. Gardiner Rapelye, Jr.

When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. But look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be. 
Joel Osteen

When there is nothing left but God, that is when you see that God is all you need. 
Nadine Mooney

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don’t have you. 
Patti LaBelle

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul. Rabbi Harold Kushner

Why indeed must ‘God’ be a noun? Why not a verb...the most active and dynamic of all?Mary Daly

You may find God in the laughter of your children; the grief of a friend; the opening of forsythias after a long winter; the noisy joyfulness of birds and wind; or the quiet testimony of ants and cobwebs. God’s altar is everywhere and in everything. T. Byram Karasu

You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
Anthony Bloom

Your relationship with God is one thing you should take personally. Betsy Williams