Top 100 Thy Will Quotes
#1. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois Fenelon
#2. Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.'
'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected.
'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.
Edward Rutherfurd
#3. Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#4. Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!
Peace Pilgrim
#5. These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.
Thomas Browne
#7. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
John Fletcher
#9. He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed that prayer and meant it-even once-we have ourselves shut the door on thousands of things for which we might foolishly ask.
Tom Wells
#10. The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.
Robert G. Allen
#11. To give, and not to count the cost
to fight, and not to heed the wounds,
to toil, and not to seek for rest,
to labor, and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will
Ignatius Of Loyola
#12. There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of 'Thy will be done.
Stephen King
#13. Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
Oscar Wilde
#14. Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon
#15. I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.
A.W. Tozer
#16. Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy.
Marcus Aurelius
#17. Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."
Peter Kreeft
#18. The words "Thy will be done," written in the heart, are the window to revelation.
Henry B. Eyring
#19. After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.
Dwight L. Moody
#20. Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#21. I have no master but Thee, no law but Thy will, no delight but Thyself, no wealth but that Thou givest, no good but that Thou blessest, no peace but that Thou bestowest.
Anonymous
#22. But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
Oswald Chambers
#24. So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.
William Shakespeare
#25. Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas A Kempis
#27. Help me, Gunnulf," begged Kristin. She was white to the very edge of her lips. "I don't know my own will." "Then say: Thy will be done," replied the priest softly.
Sigrid Undset
#28. Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: "I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you." "Thy will be done" is the essential prayer of the saint; "my will be done" is the essential demand of the sinner.
Peter Kreeft
#29. Life eternal, this lady of thine hath a sore heart, and we cannot help her. Thou art help, O Mighty Love. Speak to her, and let her know thy will, and give her strength to do it, O Father of Jesus Christ, Amen.
George MacDonald
#30. Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words ... "Thy will be done."
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#32. Lord teach us to be resigned to Thy will; teach us to delight in Thy law; teach us to have no will but Thy will; teach us to be sure that everything Thou doest is good - is the very best that can be done.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. ( ... ) and it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee who abhors thee now.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#34. Father of all
God!
what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.
Lew Wallace
#35. God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. "Thy will be done" is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#36. Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
Hans Christian Andersen
#37. How grateful am I personally that our Savior taught we should conclude our most urgent, deeply felt prayers, when we ask for that which is of utmost importance to us, with Thy will be done.
Richard G. Scott
#38. Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
Dwight L. Moody
#40. 0 Lord, Thy will, not mine, be done.
Unknown
#41. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
Boyd K. Packer
#43. So he re-entered the prayer that he thought he had closed, and added the phrase that he had deliberately left out when he was on his knees: Thy will be done.
Orson Scott Card
#44. If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!
John McLeod
#45. Thou Power Supreme, whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here firm I rest; they must be best, Because they are Thy will! Then all I want - O do Thou grant This one request of mine! - Since to enjoy Thou dost deny, Assist me to resign.
Robert Burns
#47. Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.
Francis Of Assisi
#49. Teach me to be resigned to thy will, to delight in thy law, to have no will but thine, to believe that everything thou doest is for my good.
[pg. 132, Divine Promises]
Arthur Bennett
#50. My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.
Christian Scriver
#51. If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
David Livingstone
#52. In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.
Robert Browning
#53. It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint.
John Ortberg
#54. So thou being rich in Will add to thy Will
One will of mine to make thy large Will more.
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one, Will
William Shakespeare
#55. O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
Saint Augustine
#56. Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#57. 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
#58. He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will
By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity;
John Milton
#59. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#60. I find my pleasure in doing thy will, my God, and thy law dwells deep within my heart.
Josemaria Escriva
#61. Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#62. We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
Oswald Chambers
#63. In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'
David Connolly
#64. 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
#65. I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
#66. Lord, is it not Thy word, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God? Thou givest liberally, and upbraidest not. Thou hast said, if any be willing to do Thy will, he shall know. I am willing to do, let me know Thy will.
John Wesley
#67. If we can't say "thy will be done" from the bottom of our hearts, we will never know any peace. We will feel compelled to try to control people and control our environment and make things the way we believe they ought to be.
Timothy Keller
#68. Is it thy will they image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
William Shakespeare
#69. And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
John Milton
#70. His Pronouncement is Your Announcement -I will make thy name great
Ikechukwu Joseph
#71. Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
Matthew Arnold
#72. Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
William Penn
#73. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators ... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.
H. P. Blavatsky
#74. Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.
Marcus Aurelius
#76. For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.
John Milton
#77. Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
#78. Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried.
Cassandra Clare
#79. The more and better thou knowest, the more heavy will be thy judgment unless thy life be also more holy.
Thomas A Kempis
#80. Now it is over," he said sadly. "Now the great times are done. Thy friends will mourn, but nothing will come of their mourning." Danny
John Steinbeck
#81. Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart
Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.
Sophocles
#82. Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.
Stephen King
#83. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
Benjamin Franklin
#84. Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
Robert Breault
#85. Go, little Book! From this my solitude
I cast thee on the Waters,
go thy ways:
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The World will find thee after many days.
Be it with thee according to thy worth:
Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.
Robert Southey
#86. Oh mysterious world ... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.
Paul Gauguin
#87. I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
Letitia Landon
#88. If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
Walter Raleigh
#89. Thy key to being able to communicate and benefit from each other is to truly see you own value. That will allow you to see it more clearly in others.
Garrison Wynn
#90. Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.
P.C. Cast
#91. Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee,
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
Robert Herrick
#92. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!
James Hogg
#93. One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
William Shakespeare
#94. I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Rosa Luxemburg
#95. AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.
Euripides
#97. O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand ... I am going to accept this as Thy Word - by faith! I'm going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.
Billy Graham
#98. If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
William Penn
#99. If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.
Joseph Alleine
