What God Wants Quotes

#1. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG

Max Lucado

#2. I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

Lex Luger

#3. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

Therese De Lisieux

#4. God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

Carla Jablonski

#5. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.

Nick Vujicic

#6. When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

Donald Miller

#7. If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

David G. McAfee

#8. You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path ... a better path ... His path.

Billy Graham

#9. God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

John Ruskin

#10. Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do ... even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

Joyce Meyer

#11. I distrust those people who knew so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan D. Anthony

John Ortberg

#12. God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.

Francis George

#13. The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants.

Stormie O'martian

#14. You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Joyce Meyer

#15. Single-minded and joyous devotion to God and his will, to what God wants for us-and to service to him and to others because of him-is what the will transformed into Christliheness looks like.

Dallas Willard

#16. That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing."

"What's the difference?" Cecil asked.

Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.

Meriol Trevor

#17. What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Clayton Christensen

#18. God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Actually,

Richard J. Foster

#19. Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

Margaret Silf

#20. God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though
and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

David Foster Wallace

#21. Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

C. Wagner

#22. It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

Stormie O'martian

#23. Sentry: King, may I speak?
Creon: Your very voice distresses me.
Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?
Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!
Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.
Creon: You talk too much.

Sophocles

#24. Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

Barbara G. Walker

#25. This is what God wants most from you: a relationship!

Rick Warren

#26. God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

Willie Aames

#27. As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.

Theodore Epp

#28. If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Craig Groeschel

#29. We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.

Monica Johnson

#30. [ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.

Bob Goff

#31. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

John Piper

#32. I must be continually ready to give up the parts of my life that God wants to replace with trust in him, even if what I need to give up are my own expectations and continual need to be in the driver's seat of my life.

Kristen Strong

#33. So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

Jan Karon

#34. Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life - which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.

Billy Graham

#35. We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

Jon Gordon

#36. I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Joyce Meyer

#37. God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

David B. Haight

#38. I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Joyce Meyer

#39. You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

Victoria Osteen

#40. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

Hayley DiMarco

#41. We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

Watchman Nee

#42. God wants us to be happy, because when we are, we are closer to Him. We can hear His direction better in the form of intuition and we can help others as well. So, do what makes you happy.

Sharon Critchfield

#43. Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

Peter Kreeft

#44. We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillip E. Johnson

#45. I try to teach people that I believe God wants us to be positive toward ourselves, meaning that, you know what, I like the way I look, I like the way I sound, I'm happy with what I'm doing in my career - and not always be beating ourselves down.

Joel Osteen

#46. I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

Megan Carson

#47. Every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terri Blackstock

#48. Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.

Mark Batterson

#49. Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants.

Oswald Chambers

#50. God has been acting honorably throughout history regrading what He wants. We're the ones at fault. God is good. And I still really, truly like Him

Dee Henderson

#51. Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

John Ortberg

#52. You think it's a blessing to know what God wants?

Paul Schrader

#53. Oh, God," Shannon moans. "We have to boil water," I tell Kenny. "She wants Cup-a-Soup?" "No, it's to sterilize things." "What's that?" I start rummaging through my house looking for anything useful. I get a knife, scissors, salad tongs, clothespins, a bottle of whiskey. Kenny

Tawni O'Dell

#54. All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.

Dolly Parton

#55. Spiritual love, derived from Love-Intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just for the sake of being what God wants us to be.

Thomas Hora

#56. If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.

John Wooden

#57. If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)

Hakim

#58. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

Lenny Kravitz

#59. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

Willie Nelson

#60. God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

John Bytheway

#61. Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us."
When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. "Now what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that."
I said: "if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.

Dashiell Hammett

#62. The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Oswald Chambers

#63. What if God wants us to be happy? What if there's nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn't it be us?

Cristina Henriquez

#64. In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

Diego Maradona

#65. We believe we can't attract to ourselves what we want because we think we are separate from God, and whether we are able to manifest anything is dependent upon whether God wants us to do that or not.

Wayne Dyer

#66. Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel.

Heidi Baker

#67. Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

Mark Batterson

#68. I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

Rowan Williams

#69. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

#70. We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn't the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.

Shannon L. Alder

#71. Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Eugene H. Peterson

#72. God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!

Napoleon Hill

#73. Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

Eric Hoffer

#74. It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Joyce Meyer

#75. God could easily at any moment prove he existed beyond doubt with some amazing show of power which would have everyone kneel to him in awe. That is not what he wants. Real belief can't be gained by a dazzling show and a loving relationship can't be won through force.

Lewis N. Roe

#76. What God wants for us is always what's best for us - we just need to trust Him.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#77. God hasn't given us all the time we need because he wants us to rely on other people as well as our own resources and gifts. God has given us all we need, to be sure, but the mistake is thinking that all we need is time. What

Matt Perman

#78. What happened to the Ford?" "God, Gloria made me sell it. Supposedly, I had too much independence - that's the new theory, that I ran off because of independence. Also, she wants me to see a shrink. She's convinced that anyone who wouldn't want to live with her has to be crazy.

W. Bruce Cameron

#79. I think God's hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that's your answer.

Bob Goff

#80. One of the great themes of the Christian Bible is that, whenever God asks us to do something for him, he gives us the gifts we need to do it. Knowing us for what we are, he equips us for what he wants us to do.

Alister E. McGrath

#81. Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.

Oswald Chambers

#82. Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

Joyce Rachelle

#83. Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

Leonard Sweet

#84. A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.

Rich Mullins

#85. So often, well-meaning Christians pray for a visitation from God, but what He really wants is a habitation with us. He doesn't want to come into our lives as a guest while we are on our best behavior around Him until He leaves.

Jack Frost

#86. I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He's called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that's what I'm going to do and I'll let the Lord take care of the rest.

Trip Lee

#87. A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.

Victoria Osteen

#88. How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?

Hyman Rickover

#89. Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#90. Simply put, God favors those who ask. He holds back nothing from those who want and earnestly long for what He wants.

Bruce H. Wilkinson

#91. At least she (Thomas' mom) knows what she wants is dead. What I want just refuses to be with me. Maybe I should compare notes with her on what's worse, for I swear to God sometimes I think if you were dead this would hurt less.

Joey W. Hill

#92. God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Joyce Meyer

#93. Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

Agnes Sanford

#94. When we learn to truly follow Jesus, we find that obedience to God comes from the inside out. Submission to what God wants for our lives flows naturally out of that relationship.

Kyle Idleman

#95. It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

Teena Marie

#96. The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#97. Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

Parker Palmer

#98. Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

Sam Harris

#99. A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

Beth Moore

#100. What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.

Ralph Martin