God's Will Quotes - Page 6

• A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.

  Winkie Pratney

  Voice, Enemy, Essentials

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• If something fit in with what God had said to me, then I considered it. If not - no matter how attractive it appeared - I refused. The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Secret, Matter, Fit

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.33, Gospel For Asia Books

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• The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Secret, Following God, Rejecting

  "Revolution in World Missions".

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• The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

  R. T. Kendall

  May, Knowledge Of God, Miserable

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• Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

  Jim Fergus

  Atrocities, Criminals, Heroic

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

  Amy Carmichael

  Acceptance, Perfect, Joy

  Amy Carmichael, David Hazard (2005). “I Come Quietly to Meet You: An Intimate Journey in God's Presence”, p.79, Bethany House

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• The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

  Oswald Chambers

  Winning, Missionary, Doe

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• Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

  Thomas Watson

  Grace, Election, Pleasure

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.91, Gideon House Books

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• Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, God

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• We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

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• Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Waiting, Grace

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• Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Humility, Agency, Giving

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• Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Prayer, Men, Heaven

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• Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God's will.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.92, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Grieving, Long

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.209, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Justice, Diversity

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

  Paul of the Cross

  Spring, Flower, Exercise

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• We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

  Cesar Chavez

  Men, Humanity, Earth

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• For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

  Henry Adams

  God, Fall, Ignorance

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

  Joan of Arc

  Sin, Knows, Dies

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• Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

  Jan Smuts

  People, Defeat, Brighter Days

  1902 Speech at the Vereeniging peace talks, 31 May.

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• If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.

  T. D. Jakes

  Heart, Blessing, Mind

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• ... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

  Catharine Beecher

  Education, Doe, Propose

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• I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Waiting, Sincerity, Theory

  "Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived". p. 235. Book by Helene Moglen, 1984.

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