Top 100 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. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
Therese De Lisieux
#3. When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.
Donald Miller
#4. 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
#5. The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants.
Stormie O'martian
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. This is what God wants most from you: a relationship!
Rick Warren
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
Jon Gordon
#14. 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
#15. Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.
Peter Kreeft
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants.
Oswald Chambers
#19. 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
#20. You think it's a blessing to know what God wants?
Paul Schrader
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
Lenny Kravitz
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. What God wants for us is always what's best for us - we just need to trust Him.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#31. 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
#32. How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?
Hyman Rickover
#33. Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.
Ryan Sheckler
#37. The people who refuse to submit to God's authority will never really discover who they are and what God wants them to do. No matter how successful they may be in the eyes of the world, unless they change they will be failures in the eyes of God.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#38. I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
Joel Osteen
#39. I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
Elayne Boosler
#40. When I think thoughts that are false or unworthy, when I entertain desires that are in opposition to what God wants for my life, I damage my soul.
John Ortberg
#41. We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.
Glenn Beck
#42. Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
Shane Claiborne
#43. Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.
Henry Jacobsen
#44. When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.
Mark Batterson
#45. Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.
Clay Aiken
#46. I don't know what God wants, Eshe."
"The mullahs say they know what God wants," Eshe said. "You believe them?" He met her look in the rearview mirror.
Nyx looked back at the road. "The mullahs can't figure out what they want for dinner," she said.
Kameron Hurley
#47. I think the biggest single improvement, or change, that a person could make in one's life would be to come to a deeper understanding, a more expanded awareness of who they are, of who God is, of what God wants, of what life is really about, of the purpose of life.
Neale Donald Walsch
#48. If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy.
Werner Erhard
#49. Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
Josemaria Escriva
#50. If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.
Dan Phillips
#51. If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.
Joyce Meyer
#52. Let's be honest. Most of us don't want to be observers of life; we want to experience it. Well, that's exactly what God wants for us. He doesn't just want us to read about Him and talk about Him; He designed us to experience Him.
Thomas Blackaby
#53. Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.
Brad Warner
#55. I was born a heretic. 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, U.S. reformer and suffragist
George Washington
#56. Prayer is less about trying to get God to do something we want God to do and more about getting ourselves to do what God wants us to do and to become who God wants us to become.
Shane Claiborne
#57. Be informed here and now that incessant prayers does not finger God to open the Windows of heaven. What God wants to see Is your passion towards success and your giving drive ... nothing else!
Michael Bassey Johnson
#58. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#59. The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world ...
N. T. Wright
#60. Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do
then do it with all your strength.
George Washington
#61. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
Oswald Chambers
#62. I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony
#63. 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
#64. Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.
Joshua Stannard
#65. Are you facing a superheated furnace? What God wants is for you to look full in the face of Jesus. Get your focus off whatever it is that appears to be unanswered and focus on the Son.
Anne Graham Lotz
#66. We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Elisabeth Elliot
#67. Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.
Lacey Mosley
#68. Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
Graham Cooke
#69. If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.
Joyce Meyer
#70. Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
#71. It doesnt matter how long it's been or how impossible it looks, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what God wants to do.
Joel Osteen
#72. Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.
Craig Groeschel
#74. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
Thomas Merton
#75. God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants?
Rob Bell
#76. The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace.
Elisabeth Elliot
#77. Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#78. On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous ... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
Charles Stanley
#79. Your complaint should be a pointer to what God wants you to do
Sunday Adelaja
#80. There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But ... this is what God wants of you.
Stephen King
#81. Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.
Chip Ingram
#82. Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.
Milton Jones
#83. Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
Henry Suso
#84. The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.
Elaine Pagels
#85. In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.
Dallas Willard
#86. Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want - but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#87. Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.
Cyc Jouzy
#88. Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.
Rick Warren
#89. 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
#90. God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.
Carla Jablonski
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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