Top 100 Quotes About Doing God's Will
#2. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
Therese De Lisieux
#3. For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#4. The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#5. Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.
Brother Lawrence
#7. doing God's will, eating the meat of the Word, is not listening to a Bible teacher, but going and doing what it says, especially as it relates to working in the harvest fields.
Bill Johnson
#8. God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.
Thomas Hale
#9. Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.
Frederick Buechner
#10. As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.
Christina Engela
#11. Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Eric Metaxas
#12. No matter what we own, we will not be happy if doing God's will is not a priority in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#13. Spirituality is not something that comes through one encounter with God. It is the result of choosing the way of self denial and doing God's will consistently day after day, week after week and year after year.
Zac Poonen
#14. It is found in understanding that the only people who are doing God's will are those who have repented and been born again. God's grace is not a license to sin, but a temporary opportunity to repent and receive forgiveness.
David Servant
#15. You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
Philippa Gregory
#16. Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
Mother Teresa
#17. You do not have to seek God's will when you are doing God's will.
Jack Hyles
#18. Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#19. Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
Jeremy Collier
#20. When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.
Mary C. Neal
#22. Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.
Saint Peter
#23. You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways
Henry Blackaby
#24. The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.
Jakob Bohme
#25. 'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.
Monica Johnson
#26. I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
Rani Mukerji
#27. I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.
Gabourey Sidibe
#28. Paul valued his life, but the doing of God's will was his highest priority.Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide feel the smae. Although, as Jesus foretold, they are 'objects of hatred by all the nations'.
Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society
#29. * Recognize that God is with you.
* Acknowledge God knows what He's doing.
* Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life.
* Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)
Brennan Manning
#30. What's so cool about God and our government is that you can make a mistake, and they will forgive you if you just a good person and doing right.
Tom Lister Jr.
#31. Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
George MacDonald
#32. Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. In doing these things, God will exalt you in this earth and you won't have to sacrifice your soul for earthly crowns that will fade.
Monica Johnson
#33. The wise in all ages ... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#34. There will always be naysayers. The key is to listen to God's calling. If you're doing that, then everyone else's opinion amount to little more than hot air.
Karen Kingsbury
#35. According to this hermeneutic, if we follow what the NT says about the relationships between men and women and husbands and wives, we will not be doing the will of God, for the redemptive movement in Scripture means we must go beyond Scripture to discover God's perfect will.
Benjamin Reaoch
#36. The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.
Russell Simmons
#37. Paul was focusing on what was happening in him, not to him. Likewise, we can be sure that when something is happening to us, God is doing something in us--something that will shape us for eternity.
Chris Hodges
#38. Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job - binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry - I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth.
Philip Yancey
#39. when life throws you a curveball, you will end up saying, "God, what are You doing to me?" We end up blaming God, as opposed to allowing the goodness of God to navigate us through the situation.
Chris Gore
#40. Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time.
Orson Scott Card
#41. No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good - bringing glory to God by doing good to others.
Tim Challies
#42. Eugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#43. The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
Oswald Chambers
#44. In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God's voice, we must tune out this world's noise.
Billy Graham
#45. This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.
Evelyn Underhill
#46. Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.
Gene Robinson
#47. 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
#48. When Judgment Day comes, we will regret the waste of a single moment not used for the glory of Christ. We will, however, not regret one moment we spent diligently studying God's Word and hiding it in our heart. We will only wish we'd spent more time doing this.
Andrew M. Davis
#49. You can. It's not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of doing it - making the decision to bend that iron will of yours in God's direction so that He can hear your prayers and unleash blessings.
Julie Lessman
#51. I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
Kohta Hirano
#52. I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
Joel Osteen
#53. For me, doing the actual work to fulfill the vision is the easy part. It's the emotional journey that I go through as I am free falling into the unknown that is the hard part. But each time I jump, I'm learning to trust that God will continue to guide me and help me to land safely.
Yvonne Pierre
#54. If you are doing all five of the basic things, do you know what the next principle of God's will is? Do whatever you want! If those five elements of God's will are operating in your life, who is running your wants? God is!
Anonymous
#55. 17For l it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
Anonymous
#56. That's my thing - keep filled with faith. Keep doing what you can do and I believe God will do what you can't do.
Joel Osteen
#57. We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.
Myles Munroe
#58. When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
Joel Osteen
#59. God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior's example and spend the days of their lives doing good.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#60. I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#61. But the more you make the choice to live above your feelings, to trust God instead of what you may feel like doing, the stronger your faith becomes. It's not about being perfect. We will always been on a journey of growing closer to God.
Tim Tebow
#63. Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.
Joyce Meyer
#64. The Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was the doing Good to Man; that our Souls are immortal; and that all Crime will be punished and Virtue rewarded either here or hereafter ...
Benjamin Franklin
#65. Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
Catherine Marshall
#66. The old saying is true: "We are saved by faith alone, but saving faith is never alone." If you belong to God, you will persevere in doing good. You will not be perfect, but you will persevere with patience.
James Johnston
#67. God wants us to focus on doing His will, His purpose; because He knows that only in doing that will we be fulfilled
Sunday Adelaja
#68. I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
Tasha Smith
#69. When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
Olof Palme
#71. When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.
Joyce Meyer
#72. God wants you to start doing something now. Begin with the little things you have the ability to do and He will help you
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.
Teresa Hampton
#74. As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.
Theodore Epp
#75. Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
Alphonsus Liguori
#76. When we do good - even when others are doing wrong - God will bless us.
Billy Graham
#77. Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.
Joyce Meyer
#78. It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
Ken Hensley
#79. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#80. God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Adam Hamilton
#81. If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible for Jesus, and then God will help you.
Reinhard Bonnke
#82. Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
William Ellery Channing
#83. When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done ... is doing ... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it ... stay amazed!
Joyce Meyer
#84. 6Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. 7Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.
Anonymous
#85. Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
James Hudson Taylor
#86. If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this ... We call our strategy the wedge .
Phillip E. Johnson
#87. I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?
Tricia Goyer
#88. The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind.
John Piper
#89. Old ways of doing things cease to be effective, though they may have been very powerful in the past. There arises a very real danger that we will set ourselves in opposition to what God truly is doing now and aims to do in the future.
Dallas Willard
#90. Focus on your relationship with God, make doing His wills your priority and together with Him you will be the head and not the tail
Sunday Adelaja
#91. Worship is critical in sustaining what God is doing. As God is honored in worship, His presence will continue.
Rodney Burton
#93. God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
A.B. Simpson
#94. Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.
Vincent De Paul
#95. For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory
Harold B. Lee
#96. It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.
Honor Raconteur
#97. Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#98. Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.
Kari Jobe
#99. If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.
Eric Liddell
#100. It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
Jacqueline McKenzie
