God's Will Quotes - Page 9

• It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we are sick, or going to the dentist. Somebody needs to tell us that the sunrise is also God's will. There is the time of harvest, the harvest which will provide food and clothes for us, without which life could not be sustained on earth. God ordered the seasons-they are his will. In fact, the good things in life far outweigh the bad. There are more sunrises than cyclones.

  Charles L. Allen

  God, Things In Life, Medicine

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• That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

  Isaac Barrow

  Fear, Men, Together

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.335

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• Blessings are better than miracles. If you live your life from one miracle to the next, you will live from crisis to crisis. It's better to be blessed with good health than to always need divine healing. God's will is for us to walk in blessing.

  Andrew Wommack

  Blessed, Healing, Blessing

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• Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to our goal in obedience to Him, in channels of His choosing, whether in sunshine or shadow, in the cheer of spring or in the chill of winter, neither detained by pleasure nor deterred by pain?

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Cheer, Pain, Spring

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

  Harry Browne

  Wisdom, Special, World

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• By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will.

  Thomas Case

  Suffering, God's Will

  Thomas Case (1802). “Correction, instruction: or, The rod and the word”, p.13

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• I believe that family is closer to God's heart than anything else, the support system he has given us to build us up in faith, and to support us when we falter. If we want our family lives to conform to God's will, Jesus must be our priority, our focal point, in our home as well as in our ministries.
  That doesn't mean that it's always easy to live together: home can be the hardest place to live a Christian life. That's were people see us when we're tired and our defences are down.

  Angus Buchan

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Superiors, God's Will

  Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr

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• Real prosperity is … Having the financial abundance to obey God's will whenever He wants you to, and however he wants you to.

  Kong Hee

  Real, Want, Financial

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• The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Moving, Creativity

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• So many people have fat bank accounts! But when God wants them to give they can’t give. When God wants them to do certain things they can’t do it – then they’re not really rich. They are not really! Because they do not have the financial abundance to obey God’s will. .

  Kong Hee

  People, Giving, Want

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• Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Doe, Calling

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

  Dallas Willard

  Needs, Want, Littles

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• They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Running, Hurt, Grief

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• I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do - using me as an instrument. I believe that anyone who is fully surrendered to God's will can be used gloriously - and will really know some things - and will probably be called self-righteous. You're called self-righteous if you are self-centered enough to think you know everything - but you may also be called self-righteous by the immature if you are God-centered enough to really know some things.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Thinking, Accustomed

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 04, 2015

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• They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected to what He permits, and sink wretchedly from bad to worse.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Progress, Advancement

  "The homilies".

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• I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2887, BookCaps Study Guides

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• They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Good Love, Hypocrite, Son

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• God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  God Knows, Knows, Ifs

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.165, Moody Publishers

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• In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.

  John Calvin

  Religious, Thinking, People

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• I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."

  Baroness Orczy

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

  "Links in the Chain of Life" by Emma Orczy, (Ch. 8), 1947.

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• Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Awful, Hindsight

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Order, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

  Umberto Eco

  Waiting, Asking, Elements

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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