100 Inspirational Godly Quotes About Life to Uplift Your Spirit

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

- Lamentations 3:22-23

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you."

- Isaiah 26:3

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."

- Galatians 3:26-27

"I can do all this through him who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:13

"When I am afraid, I put my trust in you."

- Psalms 56:3

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

- Romans 15:13

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

- Romans 8:28

"“ ‘ “The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ’"

- Numbers 6:24-26

"but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Isaiah 40:31

"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."

- Deuteronomy 6:6-7

"Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation.”"

- Isaiah 12:2

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor."

- Proverbs 21:21

"Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."

- Psalms 46:2-3

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."

- 1 John 4:16

"May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed."

- Psalm 20:4

"The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore."

- Psalms 121:7-8

"Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!"

- Psalm 34:8

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."

- Isaiah 40:28-29

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."

- Jesus

"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

- Ephesians 4:32

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

- Bible (2 Corinthians 3:17)

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

- Oswald Chambers

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him"

- John Piper

"True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises."

- Francis Chan

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Chuck Swindoll

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me."

- Jesus Christ

"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy."

- D.L. Moody

"Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you."

- J.I. Packer

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

- Saint Augustine

"What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

"God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."

- Tony Evans

"When we work, we work. When we pray, God works."

- James Hudson Taylor

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."

- Thomas Aquinas

"We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

- John Calvin

"The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting."

- Oswald Chambers

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

- Thomas Aquinas

"He said “Love…as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much."

- Amy Carmichael

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life."

- Charles Stanley

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."

- Dwight L. Moody

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."

- Proverbs 17:17

"It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you."

- Timothy Keller

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

- C.S. Lewis

"You need not to know much about Heaven – it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us."

- C.S. Lewis

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

- Phillips Brooks

"We are not here to be overcome, but to rise unvanquished after every knockout blow, and laugh the laugh of faith, not fear."

- Amy Carmichael

"You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him."

- A.W. Tozer

"A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness."

- Jonathan Edwards

"You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

- C.S. Lewis

"I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength."

- Adam Young

"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love."

- John Stott

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon."

- Martin Luther

"Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God."

- Madeleine L’engle

"Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

- Garth Brooks

"I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve."

- Tim Tebow

"Life is God’s novel. Let him write it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"The principle part of faith is patience."

- George MacDonald

"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."

- Dean Stanley

"I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian."

- Saint Ignatius

"What the world neglects, the Lord accepts."

- Deborah Brodie

"Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers… Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers."

- Scott McKnight

"God calls us to go against the grain when the grain is going against God. Be IN the world, not OF the world."

- Tony Evans

"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know."

- D.L. Moody

"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don’t even like the word."

- Charles Stanley

"After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness."

- A.W. Pink

"God requires to be represented by a fiery Church…two things are intolerable to Him – insincerity and lukewarmness."

- E.M. Bounds

"The Bible is shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim."

- St. Augustine

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn.’"

- C.T. Studd

"Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother."

- St. Augustine

"Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord."

- Walter Cradock

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."

- A.W. Pink

"He became what we are that He might make us what He is."

- St. Athanasius

"The tragedy of life…is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that knowing Him they still insist on going their own way."

- William Barclay

"For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience."

- Alfred Edersheim

"Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven."

- Randy Alcorn

"I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

- George MacDonald

"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"You can only learn what obedience is by obeying."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man."

- Leonard Ravenhill

"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well."

- John Greenleaf Whittier

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'"

- William Arthur Ward

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

- Plato

"If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility."

- Patricia Amis

"When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian."

- Billy Sunday

"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."

- Mary Manin Morrissey

"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

- Peter Marshall

"Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"Christians ought not to slander God by looking as if they were at an everlasting funeral."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am."

- Brennan Manning

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

- Phillips Brooks

"To add value to others, one must first value others."

- John Maxwell

"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

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

- David Brainerd

"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

"For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step."

- Thomas a’ Kempis

"We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows."

- Thomas Watson

"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one’s own eyes."

- Thomas Watson

"At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption."

- E. Stanley Jones

"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure."

- John Locke

"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."

- William Cowper

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"The lukewarm do not embrace the cross; they merely drag it along."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

- Edmund Burke

"The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Every morning I wake up and thank God."

- Aaron Neville

"They always win who side with God."

- Frederick William Faber

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

- Henry Ford

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

- Garth Brooks

"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."

- William Penn

"Heaven means to be one with God."

- Confucius

"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

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

- William Blake

"One and God make a majority."

- Frederick Douglass

"Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning."

- King Solomon

"There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things."

- Saint Basil

"God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."

- Lawrence Welk

"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

- Frank Moore Colby

"Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God."

- Ernest Holmes

"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."

- Oprah Winfrey

"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."

- Alfred Adler

"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."

- Geronimo

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."

- John Shelby Spong

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

- Albert Einstein

"Christ literally walked in our shoes."

- Tim Keller

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be."

- Anne Frank

"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."

- Billy Graham

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."

- Jean Paul

"God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done."

- Stevie Wonder

"God is bigger than people think."

- Jimmy Dean

"Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines."

- Gloria Trevi

"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."

- Karen Blixen

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."

- Pearl Bailey

"Laughter is God's blessing."

- Joseph Prince

"Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back."

- Herodotus

"God has entrusted me with myself."

- Epictetus

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

- Paul Dirac

"God is a verb, not a noun."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."

- Stephen Hawking

"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."

- Alfred Jarry

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

- Oscar Wilde

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love."

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."