Quotes About Will of God

In other words, says Abbot Bernard, if you're not concerned that your heart might become hard, it already is. A hardened heart is a big problem for a leader in any context, but it will utterly derail any hope of being able to clearly hear and do the will of God.

It is not at all peculiar to contemporary man to "come of age"; it was found already in Eden. Adam and Eve revolted against the will of God in pursuit of individual preference and self-interest. But their revolt was recognized to be sin, not rationalized as philosophical "gnosis" at the frontiers of evolutionary advance.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men. It appears to men, or it does not appear. When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts, if, at all other times, he is not blind and deaf;

Our actions are a direct result of our thoughts. If we have a negative mind, we will have a negative life. If, on the other hand, we renew our mind according to God's Word, we will, as Romans 12:2 promises, prove out in our experience "the good and acceptable and perfect will of God" for our lives.

Dios, que era todo en todo; no había más que una voluntad que lo gobernaba todo: la voluntad de Dios. Solo tenía que verla, descubrirla en cualquier circunstancia en la que me hallara, y dejarme guiar por ella.

The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.

[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.

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.

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.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.