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Quotes About Will

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
~ John Calvin
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
~ Mark Twain
The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
~ Oswald Chambers
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
~ Robert Runcie
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
~ James Martineau
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
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
The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.
~ Pat Robertson
Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
~ William Ellery Channing
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
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.
~ Bill Gothard
The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.
~ Brigham Young
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux
For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
~ Zhang Zhao
You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.
~ Mother Teresa
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.
~ Jerry Bridges
Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.
~ Baha'u'llah
No free will of the creature can resist the will of God
~ Girolamo Zanchi
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
~ John Piper
You can't do God's will and satisfy everyone.
~ Mark Hart