Top 100 Quotes About Will Of God
#1. A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
Meister Eckhart
#2. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.
D.L. Moody
#4. Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.
F.F. Bruce
#5. Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#6. It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
Umberto Eco
#7. Anything worth doing should be done according to the will of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. No free will of the creature can resist the will of God
Girolamo Zanchi
#9. Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
Jim Elliot
#10. Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites ... There is a war between good and
Michael O'Brien
#11. We are not only to use our armor to protect and defend ourselves from them - as important as that is - but also to go on the offensive against them as well. When we do that, we close doors to the enemy and open doors to the will of God to be done on earth. We advance God's kingdom.
Stormie O'martian
#12. It is our responsibility as believers to bring the will of God to the people
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us in existence;
Frank Sheed
#14. Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
George MacDonald
#15. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
Mark Twain
#17. God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.
Andrew Murray
#18. Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
John Stuart Mill
#19. Romans 12:2New King James Version (NKJV)
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Christianity Today
#20. 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
#21. Hence it is evident that if men are pious, good and orderly, they will bear the sword for the protection of the innocent, according to the will of God, and for a terror to evil-doers, according as God has appointed and ordained.
Balthasar Hubmaier
#22. You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
Andy Stanley
#23. Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
#24. How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
Francois Fenelon
#25. Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
Robert Grosseteste
#26. I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#27. Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.
Leonard Ravenhill
#28. Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Sam Shoemaker
#29. The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."
Mary C. Neal
#30. Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.
Charles C. Ryrie
#31. And yet, my dear Estela, in the end one accepts the will of God, resigns oneself, and discovers that, even with all its calvaries, life is full of beautiful things.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#32. The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
Elisabeth Elliot
#33. God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
Jerry Bridges
#34. The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.
Paul Washer
#35. [Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was.
Charles R. Swindoll
#36. Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.
David Platt
#37. We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#38. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ...
Saint Francis De Sales
#39. One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#40. The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
William Ames
#41. I fought against it for months; but the best thing I ever did was when I surrendered my will, and let the will of God be done in me.
D.L. Moody
#42. So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God - in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.
Baruch Spinoza
#43. Success is knowing and doing the will of God. It is investing our time in that which will last for eternity.
Paul Chappell
#44. (Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
Diet Eman
#45. The will of God, the creator and ruler of the universe, embraces all possible wills, His own as well as that of every man born into this world. If this is so, intervened Jesus with sudden insight, then each man is a part of God.
Jose Saramago
#46. The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.
Howard G. Hendricks
#47. There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#48. For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised. HEBREWS 10:36
Joyce Meyer
#49. I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.
David Livingstone
#50. How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then not only blessed in our own souls, but also the work of our hands will prosper.
George Muller
#51. Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)
Prem Prakash
#52. Out of the will of God, there is no such thing as success, in the will of God there cannot be any failure.
Elizabeth George
#53. God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven
Sunday Adelaja
#54. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.
Tim Yarbrough
#55. When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.
Ken Follett
#56. The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
John Quincy Adams
#57. Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
William Ames
#58. I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
Alan Keyes
#59. No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
George MacDonald
#60. The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#61. 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
#62. It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.
Ellis Peters
#63. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#64. There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
William Barclay
#65. You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.
Mark Batterson
#66. We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
John Owen
#67. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
Thomas Merton
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead
Nick Hornby
#71. It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.
Frederick Lenz
#72. The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.
Marianne Williamson
#73. The way to inscribe the will of God on the hearts of people in this world is not by way of law or vote but by way of redemption through Jesus. Jesus' kingdom vision is for his redeemed people and for them alone.
Scot McKnight
#74. 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
#75. Unless Caesar Augustus is unwittingly complying with the will of God, if it is true that in His divine wisdom He has ordained that Joseph and Mary should go to Bethlehem at this time.
Jose Saramago
#77. Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames
#78. I find it difficult to accept that it is the will of God that humanity should degrade, deface, desolate, and ultimately perhaps destroy His Creation on Earth. Yet this is the course on which we are embarked.
Russell E. Train
#79. I try to remember that walking in the will of God might mean waiting as much as it might mean moving forward.
Tessa Afshar
#80. People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase
Sunday Adelaja
#81. It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
Zhang Zhao
#82. I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
Andrea Bocelli
#84. A characteristic of the flesh is its fickleness: it alternates between Yes and No and vice versa. But the will of God is: "Walk not according to the flesh (not even for a moment) but according to the Spirit."
Watchman Nee
#85. The soul should not be surprised at feeling itself unable to offer up to God such petitions as it had formally made with freedom and facility; for now the Spirit maketh intercession for it according to the will of God ("with sighs too deep for words" - Romans 8:26-27).
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#86. We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#87. 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
#88. In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
Corrie Ten Boom
#89. Multiplication is the will of God, but not necessarily duplication. God has made you an original masterpiece, so don't seek to be a carbon copy.
Hope D. Blackwell
#90. They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.
Teresa Of Avila
#91. I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.
Nicholas Sparks
#92. For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority is treated with that kind of religious respect which the orthodox give to the will of God.
Bertrand Russell
#93. One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.
Nirmala Srivastava
#94. Anger tried to boil up higher inside her. She closed her eyes, praying for God's peace. Human wrath was against the will of God and only gave Satan influence over a soul. Honor must leave these evil men to God's justice.
Lyn Cote
#95. If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
Barbara Tuchman
#96. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.
Oswald J. Smith
#97. 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
#98. One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
Andy Stanley
#99. Holiness is not a series of do's and don'ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
Jerry Bridges
#100. In our dreams, we find the dreams of others, and in other's dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.
Robin Sacredfire
