Inspiring God Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"The answer to our fears is faith—real, fear-shrinking faith—in the God who loves us and gave himself for us."

- Jani Ortlund

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

- Philippians 4:13

"For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

- Matthew 11:30

"In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."

- John 1:4

"Do to others as you would have them do to you."

- Jesus

"Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord."

- Bible (Psalm 31:24)

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path."

- Psalm 119:105

"Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths."

- Psalm 25:4

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

- Philippians 4:4

"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

- Colossians 3:2

"You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden."

- Matthew 5:14

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever."

- Psalm 136:1

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."

- Proverbs 3:5

"We love because he first loved us."

- 1 John 4:19

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

- Romans 12:12

"For nothing will be impossible for God."

- Luke 1:37

"Grace be with you all."

- Hebrews 13:25

"The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble."

- Psalm 9:9

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

- Martin Luther

"When you have faith in God, you don't have to worry about the future. You just know it's all in His hands. You just go to and do your best."

- Elder Bryan Mathison

"Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors."

- Joel Osteen

"And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."

- Matthew 21:2

"My faith didn't remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn't diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it."

- Robert Rogers

"Every day you need to get a full dose of the Word and meditate on scripture, and if you discipline yourself and remain consistent, your faith will grow and mature, and remember that God, the Word, and your faith, is a recipe for success."

- Stephanie Williams

"Hearing how God is moving in other places encourages and inspires our faith for what God wants to do in our own corner of the world."

- Matt Brown

"We can look at Job, we can look at Lamentations, we can look at the Psalms, we can look at so many heroes of the faith who at different times had questions, who faced unbelief, yet God kept them, and they continued, in their doubts, to lean towards God, to lean and doubt in a way that continued to keep them attached to the vine and seeking Jesus in all of it."

- Laura Wifler

"Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it."

- Jackie Hill Perry

"We can let go of burdens like condemnation and worry, perfectionism and insecurity. And we can cling desperately—even through tears—to the assurance that God knows, he cares, and he loves us with an infinite love. We can lay our burdens at the feet of Christ and receive what he offers instead."

- Sarah J. Hauser

"God will give you strength, for every Battle wisdom for every Decision, and Peace that Surpasses Understanding!"

- Andrew Guzaldo

"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

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."

- Mahalia Jackson

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

- Helen Keller

"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie."

- A.W. Tozer

"Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes."

- Beth Moore

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

- Saint Augustine

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith."

- A.W. Tozer

"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

"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

- John Piper

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

- Saint Augustine

"God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile."

- Max Lucado

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

- Tony Evans

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies."

- Hudson Taylor

"Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions."

- Joel Osteen

"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it."

- Pope Francis

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

- C.S. Lewis

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking God to do His work through me."

- Hudson Taylor

"God’s strength in your weakness is his presence in your life."

- Andy Stanley

"Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you."

- Charles Swindoll

"God can even give you the strength to keep going within those difficult situations. God calls us to maintain our faith and integrity and we respond by trusting in Him."

- David Weyrick

"You know god gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things."

- Duane Chapman

"Dear god, give me the strength to move through my day with grace and love in my heart."

- Jill Alman Bernstein

"Ask God to give you strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you."

- Joel Osteen

"God, give me strength to get through today. You know the struggles I have to face. The ups and downs along the way, the need for me to find my place."

- Kim-Lee Patterson

"We do fall away from faith. God’s grace gives us strength to rise again."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever."

- Margaret Keane

"O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to you!"

- Mother Teresa

"God give me the strength to get up when I fall – and the grace to forgive those who gave me the push."

- Nishan Panwar

"God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible."

- Richard Allen

"People are always more encouraged when we share how God’s grace helped us in weakness than we brag about our strengths."

- Rick Warren

"Dear God, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I reach forward today, touch the hem of your garment, and receive my healing. Yes, I want to get well. Give me the faith to walk in freedom and victory."

- Sharon Jaynes

"I’m going to keep on keeping on as long as I’ve got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it."

- Sharon Jones

"God will always be there with us and give us the strength to meet the difficulties in life."

- Wendell E. Mettey

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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.

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

- William Arthur Ward

"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

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

- Jesus Christ

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"Every morning I wake up and thank God."

- Aaron Neville

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

- Lawrence Welk

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation."

- Joel Osteen

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."

- Corrie ten Boom

"God is the ultimate Creator and He's crafted all things for His glory and my good."

- Lore Ferguson Wilbert

"True intimacy with God always brings humility."

- Beth Moore

"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

"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

"Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful."

- Dean Cain

"If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that."

- Karlie Kloss

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

- Gregory Peck

"If you lose faith, you lose all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t."

- Blaise Pascal

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

- Voltaire

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

- Billy Graham

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

- C.S. Lewis

"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."

- Susan Taylor

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

- Edwin Louis Cole

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God."

- Beth Moore

"It is a blessing for our children to see us live out our faith—trusting in God’s good character and provision—even when we don’t have all the answers."

- Marissa Bondurant

"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

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"One and God make a majority."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Thomas S. Monson

"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

"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

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

- John Greenleaf Whittier

"They always win who side with God."

- Frederick William Faber

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

- John Shelby Spong

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

- Stevie Wonder

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

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

- Edmund Burke

"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

"Heaven means to be one with God."

- Confucius

"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

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

- William Blake

"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

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

- Frank Moore Colby

"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

"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

"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."

- Mitch Albom

"I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith."

- Nicholas Sparks

"It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different."

- Victoria Arlen

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

- Alan Watts

"Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish."

- Brad Henry

"Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith."

- Garth Brooks

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."

- Diane Sawyer

"If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in."

- Roman Reigns

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

- Elie Wiesel

"Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Laughter is God's blessing."

- Joseph Prince

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

- Will Smith

"Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what."

- Martina McBride

"Believe in yourself when nobody else does."

- Mary J. Blige

"You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground."

- A. J. McLean

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

- Herodotus

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

- Karen Blixen

"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 is bigger than people think."

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Ernest Holmes

"God has entrusted me with myself."

- Epictetus

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

- William Penn

"Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines."

- Gloria Trevi

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

- Pearl Bailey

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

- Paul Dirac

"God is a verb, not a noun."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

- Jean Paul

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Alfred Jarry

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

- Steve Jobs

"What is your purpose? Why are you here? Start small and find out."

- Nannie Helen Burroughs

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

- J. M. Barrie

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Albert Einstein

"Faith is not contrary to reason."

- Sherwood Eddy

"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Just as love is a verb, so is faith."

- Nannie Helen Burroughs

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Psalm 73:26

"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

"I can do all things through him who strengthens me."

- Philippians 4:13

"Rejoice always."

"Give thanks in all circumstances."

"Do everything in love."

"Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”"

"Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding."

"Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come."

"I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken."

"But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!"

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed."

"May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!"

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

"May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus."

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."

"He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters."

"But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth."

"Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!"

"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."

"The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

"But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."

"And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”"