Top 100 Quotes About God's Will
#1. 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
#2. We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems,structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
John Nelson Darby
#4. If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.
Billy Graham
#5. 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
#6. The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.
Marianne Williamson
#8. We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
Rod Parsley
#9. God's will is your deepest desires.
Dan Brown
#10. Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
John Stott
#11. No matter what we own, we will not be happy if doing God's will is not a priority in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#12. God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, sooner or later, all the pieces will fit together.
Danny L. Deaube
#13. We're always in danger of going over the edge unless we stay at the center of God's will.
Norma Gail
#14. Keep your head up, and know that the sun breaks through the skies each day so you can experience God's will and purpose for your life. If you can see the sun or even the moon, then you are already in line with His plans.
Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
#15. 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
#16. God's will can go fuck itself. And so can you.
Jason Aaron
#17. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.
Keith Miller
#18. Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an instrument of God's will.
Joe L. Wheeler
#19. Trying to understand God's will for anything without reading the Bible is like jumping into the middle of a cricket match without knowing any of the rules and never having watched a game.
Vance C. Kessler
#20. Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
James Redfield
#21. Intimacy is a key to greater spiritual authority and power. We need to grow in intimacy to be able to demonstrate God's Will on earth "as it is in heaven" effectively. To the degree that His presence and glory influence us, we will influence those around us.
Paul Yadao
#22. To know the will of God is the highest of all wisdom. Living in the center of God's will rules out all falseness of religion and puts the stamp of true sincerity upon our service to God.
Billy Graham
#23. Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
Meir Soloveichik
#24. When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places.
Jan Karon
#25. Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.
Artur Pawlowski
#26. Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#27. Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
Barack Obama
#28. 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
#29. I had learned to be wary whenever a priest suggested that her personal aims were, in fact, God's will.
Ann Leckie
#31. 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
#32. I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.
Charlotte Bronte
#33. Blessings are better than miracles. If you live your life from one miracle to the next, you will live from crisis to crisis. It's better to be blessed with good health than to always need divine healing. God's will is for us to walk in blessing.
Andrew Wommack
#34. Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
Julia Cameron
#35. God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, you won't be able to see the whole picture until all the pieces are together.
Danny L. Deaube
#36. Know God's Will? How Should I Live in This World? What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Can I Be Sure I'm Saved? What Is Faith? What Can I Do with My Guilt? What Is the Trinity? What Is Baptism? Can I Have Joy in My Life? Who
R.C. Sproul
#37. A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
David Jeremiah
#38. Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#39. We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'
Erwin McManus
#40. I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.
Dwight Howard
#41. It is impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God's will. If you can't get it all done, it means you're trying to do more than God intended for you to do.
Rick Warren
#42. It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will.
Rae Carson
#43. It is then, when we have set our intention to align our will with God's will, feeling, believing, and knowing our loving connection with all that is, that we can open up our intuition to our full potential.
Catherine Carrigan
#44. Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.
Elizabeth George
#45. I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.
Terry Pratchett
#46. Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God's will.
Louie Giglio
#47. * 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
#48. depressing. I asked myself: 'Where is God?' I came to detest the sanctimonious attitude of people toward violence, always saying 'it's God's will'.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#49. 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
#50. We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scripture, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God's will to heal all who have need of healing, and that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise.
F. F. Bosworth
#51. The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
John Stott
#52. Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars
Elias Chacour
#53. In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.
Jonathan Goforth
#54. It's not our place to question God's will, and it is clearly God's will that the two of us become man and wife." It's a testament to my fine character that I don't smash that Bible right into his nose. "You wouldn't know God's will if it tipped its hat and said howdy.
Rae Carson
#55. He calls us to run hard after Him, His commands, and His glory. The decision to be in God's will is not the choice between Memphis or Fargo or engineering or art; it's the daily decision we face to seek God's kingdom or ours, submit to His lordship or not, live according to His rules or our own.
Kevin DeYoung
#57. He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#58. Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Eric Metaxas
#59. I realized that I was trying to fit God's will into my will. Not out of disobedience, but out of fear that I would disappoint God, or let Him down.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#60. 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
#61. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.
Umberto Eco
#62. Some people will go around the world to find God's will for their lives but will not go to the next room to read their Bible.
Zane Pratt
#63. '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
#64. Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God's will.
Elizabeth George
#65. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
William Sloane Coffin
#66. Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.
Bryan Chapell
#67. The will of God for us is that we know the all-inclusive Christ, experience Him, and live Him as our life. To know Christ in this way is to have the full knowledge of God's will.
Witness Lee
#68. Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
Jeannette Walls
#69. It is so easy to have problems with people when you are not God's will.
Paul Gitwaza
#70. A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.
Robert Hugh Benson
#72. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
#73. Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
Oswald Chambers
#75. Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
Philip Yancey
#76. God wants us to know His will and He reveals it to us both through the Bible and through the guidance of His Holy Spirit. Seek God's will when you pray, and He will help you know it.
Billy Graham
#77. While God's will is that every marriage will endure, man's sin has poisoned many relationships.
Billy Graham
#78. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. ROMANS 12:2 NLT
Various
#79. We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
Alistair Begg
#80. I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I console myself with the old Negro spiritual, 'Sooner will be done the troubles of this world. I'm going home to live with God.
Thea Bowman
#81. Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
Charles Bent
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.
Sri Chinmoy
#85. I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Augusto Pinochet
#86. 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
#87. The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
Rick Warren
#88. It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
Joel Osteen
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.
Jonathan Cahn
#92. Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
Henry Blackaby
#93. The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.
Garrison Keillor
#94. Your enemies still figure into God's plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn't given up on them. They may be out of God's will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects.
Max Lucado
#95. As a person finds God's will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
#96. If he wins, we'll feel its God's will. If he loses, we'll feel its God's will. I'm praying he'll win. Mostly, I'm just glad all this tension will be over.
Paul Gallender
#97. 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
#98. And real happiness will come, not in gratifying our desires or in gaining transient pleasures, but in accomplishing God's will for us: even as we pray every day: "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#99. 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
#100. 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
