Quotes About Following God's Will

#1. The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best.

K.P. Yohannan

#2. When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

Sarah Sundin

#3. As long as you are following God's will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales?

Brian Evenson

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

K.P. Yohannan

#5. Smiley TV preachers might tell you that following Jesus is about being good so that God will bless you with cash and prizes, but really it's much more gruesome and meaningful. It's about spiritual physics. Something has to die for something new to live.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#6. When you are near the middle of your life, often God will do outrageous things to knock you back on course.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

Allyson Felix

#8. Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse.

San Juan De La Cruz

#9. Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

Billy Graham

#10. Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.

Diane Haeger

#11. How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up.

Libba Bray

#12. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

Andy Stanley

#14. Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

Mother Teresa

#15. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

#16. Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws.

Baruch Spinoza

#19. It should be our firm and inflexible resolution in such a case that it shall be no parting, but that we will follow them, that their people shall be our people, and their God our God; and that for the following reasons: I. Because their God is a glorious God.

Jonathan Edwards

#20. Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: For wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Anonymous

#21. God's Word is the only reliable guideline for living. Following your
heart, without the leading of His Word and His Spirit, will lead you to His judgement.

Chuck Smith

#22. The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

Socrates

#23. All will be well if we repent of our sins, accept God's love and demonstrate it by following His law. This

Devdutt Pattanaik

#24. believe that desire is God-given, and that following that impulse is using your intuition. It will lead you to the correct place. Be a leader. Be an inspiration and declare yourself!

Mandy Ingber

#25. You are worthy and deserving of your desires. Following your heart's Desire is the same as living God's will, when you listen to your inner self and wisdom; you are actually carrying out God's intention.

Malti Bhojwani

#26. We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

Kevin DeYoung

#27. Nothing good has resulted in primarily following my will.

Todd Stocker

#28. God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Marianne Williamson

#29. to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.

Jan L. Richardson

#30. And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

David Livingstone