Quotes About Will of God

The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions of mind; that cheerful readiness to do the will of God; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have that perverseness of will, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth.

Thomas Merton who said: "The will of God is not a 'fate' to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act."5

excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

There is a whole world of difference between those who look only for their own happiness in this world and those who know their true happiness lies in the will of God.

As a bird easily comes to terms with the necessity of bearing wings when it finds that it is, in fact, the wings that bear up the bird--up, away from the world, into the sky, into freedom--so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling--wings, in fact, which bear her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being synonymous with the will of God.

The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God.

Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?

Out of the will of God, there is no such thing as success, in the will of God there cannot be any failure.

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.

Grace, I suddenly understood, is a gift of freedom, of a full liberation from one's self. It does not ask that anyone or I deny ourselves; in fact, grace becomes a way of moving closer to who one is, but by a route that does not depend on one's will but on the will of God. And it visits one in love. Love liberates in its gentle but powerful force.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.