Quotes About Knowing God's Will

#1. Prayer illuminates the difference between knowing God's will and guessing at it.

Becky Tirabassi

#2. The greatest barrier to knowing God's will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going on in our hearts - a battle between our wills and God's will.

Billy Graham

#3. Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.

James Dobson

#4. Many of today's Christians are focused on obtaining what they want instead of being content knowing God will provide for their needs.

Jarrid Wilson

#5. Nothing on this earth will empower you or change you more than knowing without doubt that God loves you.

Toni Sorenson

#6. An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#7. You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. That's why I read, as a stranger,
My being as if it were pages.
Not knowing what will come
And forgetting what has passed,
I note in the margin of my reading
What I thought I felt.
Rereading, I wonder: "Was that me?"
God knows, because he wrote it.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?

Shannon L. Alder

#10. With the tension churning within us, knowing all the ways the earth is not yet as God intended it to be, we are driven to pray daily: "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." We are not looking for an escape from the world; we are looking for the restoration of the world.

Jonathan Martin

#11. 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

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

Jonathan Goforth

#13. Success is knowing and doing the will of God. It is investing our time in that which will last for eternity.

Paul Chappell

#14. I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

Philip Yancey

#15. 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

#16. The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

Thomas Kinkade

#17. Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

George MacDonald

#18. 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

#19. It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

Jonathan Martin

#20. People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.

Joyce Meyer

#21. There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Oswald Chambers

#22. God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.

Common

#23. Far more important than looking and searching for God's will is simply knowing and trusting God.

David Platt

#24. The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Jonathan Sacks

#25. To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.

Mother Teresa

#26. Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

David Jeremiah

#27. And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn't wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

Paulo Coelho

#28. The Path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide. Not your mind. Meet, challenge, and ultimately prevail over your nafs (false ego) with your heart. Knowing your ego (higher self/soul) will lead you to the knowledge of God. (2)

Various

#29. In our ignorance, there will always be a rebuke, a murmur, or an opinion that is not in line with God. Without knowing it, we begin to speak against the ways of God, the house of God, or the man or the woman of God.

John A. Tetsola

#30. Basically, to exercise faith means to "sit upon" the Word that God gave us; to rest on it, or submit to it, knowing that God will keep it.

Guillermo Maldonado

#31. The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.

Pat Robertson

#32. The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Pat Robertson

#33. Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.

Wilferd Peterson

#34. The Hebrews knew that by rest, God meant not only the protection of their boundaries from invading hordes but the emotional, mental, and spiritual confidence they would have knowing that God was irreversibly with them. Rest was inseparable from God's presence. One always accompanies the other.

Will Davis Jr.

#35. Knowing the purpose for our lives and the time of its fulfilment gives us the opportunity to perform the will of God exactly as he wants.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

Erwin McManus

#37. We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God.

Tedd Tripp

#38. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

Ben Stein

#39. We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

Frederick Lenz

#40. When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.

Joshua Stannard

#41. God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.

Beth Moore

#42. God put us on this carnival ride,
We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next

Carrie Underwood

#43. Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

Josh McDowell

#44. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

Ben Bradlee

#45. God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

Muhammad Ali

#46. If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and joy.

Pope Francis

#47. God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

Edward McKendree Bounds

#48. In the end, what will you fight for
what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

Shannon L. Alder

#49. I miss you so much! And while this hole in my heart will never be filled again, I find comfort knowing that you are nestled within the loving embrace of God ... and that I was blessed to know you ... even if only for a little while.

Steve Maraboli

#50. My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

Lupe Fiasco

#51. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.

Sunday Adelaja

#52. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

Vincent Van Gogh

#53. Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#54. maybe we need great disappointment to appreciate the good, and to better appreciate the meaning of God in our lives. I've come to realize that part of faith is opening yourself up to free will and knowing God will bring beauty, even in the midst of evil.

Taya Kyle

#55. Risk taking is believing in yourself while trusting in God; knowing that He will open doors for you, even when you don't see any.

Farshad Asl

#56. The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

Adyashanti

#57. Knowing God, we will always understand the path that leads to success

Sunday Adelaja

#58. Pray knowing that you pray to your heavenly Father. Pray in confidence that when you ask you will receive; when you seek you will find; when you knock it will be opened. Pray knowing that you pray to a God who doesn't give stones or serpents to his kids. Believe Jesus, and pray accordingly.

Peter Leithart

#59. But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

John Piper

#60. finding greater pleasure in God will not result from pursuing more experiences of him, but from knowing him better. It will result from making a study of the Godhead.

Jen Wilkin

#61. When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. Leaders who think that growth in grace comes by knowing the Word of God without doing it will produce congregations of passive Christians which resemble human beings that eat too much and exercise too little.

Alexander Strauch

#63. When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same.

Stormie O'martian

#64. Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home ...
Gordian Pierce

Kim Harrison

#65. I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#66. Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

Sarah Palin

#67. As knowing God becomes more important to you, you will stop thinking about discouragements and persecutions; you will stop worrying altogether

Sunday Adelaja

#68. I DECLARE I will experience God's faithfulness. I will not worry. I will not doubt. I will keep my trust in Him, knowing that He will not fail me. I will give birth to every promise God put in my heart and I will become everything God created me to be. This is my declaration.

Joel Osteen

#69. As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

Oswald Chambers