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Quotes About Will

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.
~ Watchman Nee
As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.
~ Elizabeth of Hungary
[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
~ Baruch Spinoza
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
~ C. S. Lewis
God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
~ R. C. Sproul
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
~ C. S. Lewis
There will be water if God wills it.
~ Stephen King
In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.
~ Jonathan Goforth
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.
~ Jim Elliot
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
~ Charles Stanley
God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
~ Mark Batterson
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
~ John Newton
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
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
~ Martin Luther
If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn't exist there, it's not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it's supposed to exist here.
~ Bill Johnson
People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
~ Coretta Scott King
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
~ John Stott
There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
~ Pope Paul VI