God First Quotes - Page 2

• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life

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• As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Long, Firsts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• My priorities have always been God first, family second, career third. I have found that when I put my life in this order, everything seems to work out. God was my first priority early in my career when I was struggling to make ends meet. Through the failures and success I have experienced since then, my faith has remained unchecked.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Struggle, Order, Careers

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Flower, Heart

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• God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

  Matt Redman

  Firsts, Worship, Devotion

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• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Always Trying, Long, Mind

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

  Jean Toomer

  Priorities, Faithful, Firsts

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• For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

  William Tyndale

  Son, And Love, Might

  William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.204

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• The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, First Love

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• I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

  Jan Karon

  Believe, Heart, Firsts

  Jan Karon (2005). “A Light in the Window”, Penguin Books

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• Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God's blessing.

  Randy Alcorn

  Blessing, Men, People

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.70, Multnomah

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• We are human, so we do go through pain and we struggle with things, but it's all about how you respond to a situation. My whole life, I've been responding in a positive way and keeping a positive mind, keeping God first in my heart, in my mind. No matter what wrong I've done, I know who sees the heart.

  Adrian Peterson

  Pain, Struggle, Heart

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will be heavenly, beautiful and natural, the way it was when God first created the earth.

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Suffering, Earth

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• Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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• Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

  Larry Gatlin

  Good Day, Littles, Way

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

  Rebecca St. James

  Religious, Religion, One Day

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• God first, family second, career third.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Careers, Firsts, Thirds

  "Mary Kay Ash Pink Mansion for Sale, Pink Toilet Included" by Brittney R. Villalva, www.christianpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

  Leland Ryken

  Priorities In Life, Firsts, Puritan

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.299, Harper Collins

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• Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first.

  Nadia Buari

  Spiritual, Believe, Firsts

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• So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

  John Stott

  Jesus, People, Able

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• There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the mountain and called his twelve apostles around him. In the afternoon he went out on the plain with them to preach the Good News and heal the sick. He had communion with God first, then he had community, and then he went out to do the work of God. That's the order of things.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Morning, Night

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• God first, then papa.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Papa, Firsts

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• No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

  Harold Lindsell

  Country, People, Firsts

  Harold Lindsell (1973). “The world, the flesh, and the Devil”

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• I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, Politics

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Always Trying, Firsts, Helping

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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