God's Will Quotes - Page 13

• This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

  Coretta Scott King

  Blessing, Supposed To Be, God's Will

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You might say: why hasn't this happened to me? Because you have not given yourself over to the will of God, but you live according to yourself. Look at the one who loves his own will. He never has peace in himself and is always displeased with something. But whoever has given himself over to God's will perfectly has pure prayer. His soul loves the Lord, and everything is acceptable and good to him.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, War

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• You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Hate, Grateful

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Way, Satan

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• If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Couple, Care, Want

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• The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fall, Perfect

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• And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine. I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing, I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire— See in my quiet places, wishes thronging— Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Father, Inspiration

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.344, CLC Publications

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• I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Brother, Fall, Men

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• If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Men, Demand

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• Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sorrow, Trouble

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

  Arthur Compton

  God, Nature, Science

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• It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Letting Go, Religious, War

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• The one who doesn't fall doesn't stand up. It happens that I was made kind of an idol. Everybody loses. That happens. I'm a normal human being, as are all of us. If it is God's will, the next fight I'll win... No pressure at all. There is some relief because tomorrow I will go back home.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Fall, Home, Fighting

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• This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

  Queen Victoria

  Children, Women, Thinking

  Queen Victoria, Victoria Victoria, A. C. Benson (2014). “The Letters of Queen Victoria”, p.321, Cambridge University Press

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• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Saint, World

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In love the master received us, Jesus Christ our Lord, in accordance with God's will gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives.

  Pope Clement I

  Jesus, Blood, Flesh

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• There is no such thing as biblical dating. If you're dating, I don't care who you're dating, you're out of God's will. If you're a young man and you're dating, you're out of God's will. Period. You can come talk to me about it later, you can be mad if you want. But that's just the truth. There's no such thing as recreational dating. There is biblical courtship, there is no recreational dating.

  Paul Washer

  Biblical, Men, Mad

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• Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

  Thomas Merton

  Destiny, Special, Want

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Cost, Knowing God, All Things

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• Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Eye, Looks

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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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