God's Will Quotes

• Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sin, Discipleship, Avoiding

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• 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.

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

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• We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Prayer, Focus

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• There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Safety, World, May

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.84, Chosen Books

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• The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Mold, Purpose

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.14, Penguin

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Holiness, God's Will

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• I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Responsibility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

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• Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Lying, Reading, Destiny

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• The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

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• If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

  Brother Lawrence

  Pain, Differences, Pleasure

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Weed, Garden, Heaven

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.6, TAN Books

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• God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

  Hudson Taylor

  Inspiring, Christian, Missionary

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• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Meditation, Surrender

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.139, A&C Black

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• I just want to do God’s will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Want, God's Will

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, World, Midst

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• Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fear, Pride, Men

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• 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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• I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heaven, Earth, Riches

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• We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

  Erwin McManus

  Trying, Want, Determine

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• It's very important to get your desires centered so you will desire only to do God's will for you. You can come to the point of oneness of desire, just to know and do your part in the Life Pattern. When you think about it, is there anything else as really important to desire?

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Oneness, Important

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Grateful, Writing

  "Finding Joy in the Nitty-Gritty: An Interview with Ann Voskamp". "Homeschool Heartbeat" podcast with Mike Farris (Volume 127, Week 14), hslda.org. August 8-12, 2016.

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• Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

  Eric Liddell

  Spiritual, Secret, Obedience

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• For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Men, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.527, eKitap Projesi

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