Change God Quotes

• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• God grant 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

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• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Helping, Praying, Because I Can

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• The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

  Neil T Anderson

  Lying, Believe, Character

  Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Love Is, Praying

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• Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.

  Chuck Smith

  Prayer, Mind, Doe

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• I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, People, Hearing

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• The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.

  Lynn Austin

  Land, Promise, Upheaval

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• I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Praying, I Pray, I Can

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• We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Made, Ifs, Unchangeable

  R. C. Sproul (1989). “One Holy Passion: The Consuming Thirst to Know God”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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• Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Spring, Secret

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

  Alan Cohen

  Inspirational, Prayer, Eye

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• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Prayer, Doe

  "Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

  LeCrae

  Prayer, Desire, Praying

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• I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Nice, Believe

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Promise, May, Matter

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2016). “The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days”, p.13, Baker Books

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• In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.

  Max Anders

  Rocks, World, Constant

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• Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Doe

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• I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Doe, Needs

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• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Heart, Thinking

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'It's hard to kill. Maybe that's why his hand was shaking'" by Kamila Shamsie, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

  Octavia Butler

  Change, God, Truth Is

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

  William Nicholson

  Sleep, Needs, Flow

  "Fictional character: C.S Lewis (Jack)". "Shadowlands", 1993.

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• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

  Rob Bell

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Rob Bell from Jul 15, 2012

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