Here’s a treasure chest of good morning quotes – 50 powerful lines to turn your morning around. May they deeply inspire you as you begin your day. It’s my hope and prayer that these gold nuggets help you see that maybe it’s possible to have a better morning than the one you had yesterday or last week. 

Interspersed amongst the morning quotes are lines from my coming-soon book, How to Love Your Morning. You are among the first to get this sneak peek! 

I believe that mornings are often where we feel the fresh mercy of God most clearly. Do you need that today? 

God sees where you feel weighed down, afraid, or alone. He knows the wisdom and strength you need. He hears the prayers you whisper at night. And His mercy reaches higher than your fear, deeper than your questions, and wider than all in front of you that feels impossible. May His mercy meet you – overwhelm you – as you read these good morning quotes.

Motivational Good Morning Quotes

I truly can’t think of a better way to start the day than to say to Jesus, “Here it is: a whole new day before me, to love, to enjoy, to treasure. What a privilege it is to be alive, and to start my day with you.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“When you wake up asking ‘What’s wrong?’ you’ll find plenty that’s wrong. But, when you wake up asking ‘What’s possible?’ you’ll discover opportunities you never noticed before.”

— Christine Caine

“A morning routine offers us a fixed point to count on in the midst of our fast-moving worlds.”

— Emily P. Freeman

“There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I’m tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn’t come in an envelope. It’s ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It’s the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day.” 

— Bob Goff

“There’s just something about the magnificent stubbornness of a morning and its insistence on rising up over this beautiful and baffling world, every single day.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“When we begin our days by spending time with God… it brings healing. There’s no script, no race, no rules. There’s only peace, courage, and strength for the day ahead.”

 — Rebekah Lyons

“The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day.”

— Adrian Pierce Rogers 

“I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

“It’s not about when you wake up. It’s about who you wake up to be.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“Good mornings start the night before in your heart and your head. So, unburden yourself before bed. When you take off your dirty clothes from the day, think of how you are removing the regret and burden of the day.”

— Jennifer Rothschild

Christian Good Morning Quotes

“Morning is God’s way of whispering one more time: Make a difference; Touch a heart: Encourage a mind; Inspire a soul; Enjoy the day.”

— Toby Mac

“As long as we are alive, God gives us new mornings, every day. New do-overs, every day. New chances to move forward, every day. New opportunities to make reparations, to seek restoration, to rebuild what was broken. Every single day.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”

— John Bunyan

“When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth.”

― A.W. Tozer

“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”

― Elisabeth Elliot

“In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I’ve become. The one I can’t make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.”

― Lysa TerKeurst

“I have complete confidence that God, who does not sleep and who never presses the snooze button, is working while our eyes are closed.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”

― Brother Lawrence

“If God is speaking, then nothing else matters but listening.”

—Brennan Manning

“I love coming into the presence of Jesus. I am usually in my wrinkled pajamas, with sleep breath, no makeup, tousled hair, and a fearful heart—I am naturally a fearful person. But I light my candle and have my tea, and in His presence I find love and acceptance and hope.”

— Sally Clarkson

Good Morning Quotes from the book How to Love Your Morning by Jennifer Dukes Lee

“God’s mercies aren’t just new every morning. They’re new every moment.”

— Anna Lee, daughter of Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“There is no God like our God, who deliberately chooses to sit with us in every darkness, while we wait for the light of morning.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“Mornings are a series of little births, little resurrections. Every spin of earth’s axis is another genesis, tinted with hope. There’s nothing more beautiful than the loveliness of the eastern horizon, just before the sun domes above that mesmerizing line of land.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“To God, mornings aren’t just a shift in time—from night to day. Rather, they are an invitation to trust that he is always at work, stitching new mercies into the fabric of each new morning.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

 “Whatever battle stares you down this morning, he is already with you in it, and he is inviting you to the best seat in the house— right next to him. The One who brings the brightest light to illuminate the world . . . is bringing light to your life.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“The mornings I feel the least like singing are the mornings I shall choose to sing the most. The mornings I feel the least like praying are the mornings I shall choose to pray the most.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“To fall in love with your morning isn’t to deny the exhaustion or despair you feel some mornings. Not at all. To fall in love with your morning is to look at the morning sky and choose to feel the wonder at its gilded edges; to reach for the stubborn hope of a new day because you know hope changes things; and to let the protagonist of this story—God himself—wake you up with his love.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“If you are looking for true life change, if you are looking for help in making the big and little decisions of life, if you are looking for clarity in the midst of doubt, there is no better place to start your day than in God’s Word.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“Here I am, Lord, at the cusp of a brand-new day,
in which I choose to love you with
all of my heart
all of my soul
all of my mind
and all of my strength.
Help me, Lord, to love you with all of my morning.
Amen.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

If you’d like to read more of my book, you can preorder it right here.

Gratitude Good Morning Quotes

“I love that God knew we might forget about that fresh start every day, so He sends up the sun to remind us.”

— Ellie Holcomb

“You may believe in God, but never forget – it’s God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That’s God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He’s writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs.”

― Ann Voskamp

“The world settles for mornings that are bearable, at best. We can choose mornings that we love, mornings that are truly beautiful, by choosing gratitude.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’”

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Breathe. You are gifted and deeply valued, but you don’t have to be great because God is great. Now go, today, and be grateful.”

— Lisa Whittle

“I’m grateful that God consistently takes the hardest experiences of my life and turns them into beauty. He tells a better story with my life than I could ever write.”

— Annie F. Downs

“Each morning, practicing gratitude helps us recognize that the day ahead is not our own— it’s a gift to be lived with God’s purpose in mind, even on the days when life feels overwhelming. Especially on those days.”

— Jennifer Dukes Lee, How to Love Your Morning

“Teach me to extol, and to praise, and to give thanks – when I am surrounded and when it’s just me in the quiet of my heart.”

— Hannah Brencher

Bible Good Morning Quotes

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

— Lamentations 3:22-23

“In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.”

— Psalm 5:3 

“Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.”

— Psalm 90:14

“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.”

— Psalm 143:8

“The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.”

— Proverbs 4:18

“Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.”

— Isaiah 33:2

“He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.”

— Isaiah 50:4

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”

— Mark 1:35

Famous Good Morning Quotes

“Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer.”

— Martin Luther

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” 

— Eleanor Roosevelt 

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” 

— Benjamin Franklin 

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” 

— Henry David Thoreau

“I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning, by his rising from the grave very early.”

— Jonathan Edwards

A Good Morning Blessing

As you go, please know that I’m praying for you. Praying that as sure as the sun rises, whether we see through the clouds or not, you will know that God is present. He’s patiently waiting with all the kindness in His eyes for you to turn yours toward Him.

No matter the hour, mornings give us that – a chance to turn our attention toward our always praiseworthy God. So much can change when we give Him a little time, no matter how early we arise.

May you awake knowing that God is near.

May you rise with a rustle of hope in your heart.

May you pause in prayerful gratitude.

May you nourish your soul in His Word.

May you carry peace, joy, and the assurance 

of God’s presence with you throughout your day.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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