God's Will Quotes - Page 12

• Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Prayer, Heaven, Desire

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• I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Home, Evil

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• Through the years, I have discovered some essential principles in discerning God's will: First, by God's grace, we must be firmly committed to seeking first the Kingdom of God and His glory. Secondly, we must establish a life discipline of renewing our minds in the Word of God. Thirdly, we must seek godly counsel from mature believers. Fourthly, we must watch for signs of God's providence opening doors and closing them. Finally, we should consider the desires of our heart.

  Paul Washer

  Heart, Godly, Opening Doors

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.

  Eunhyuk

  Heart, Plans, God's Will

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• I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.

  Dwight Howard

  Winning, Games, Trying

  InsideHoops.com Interview, www.insidehoops.com. December 12, 2004.

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• Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Doe, Saint, Bidding

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2120, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Please Me, Say Anything

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

  David Brooks

  Pride, Doe, World

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

  Garrison Keillor

  Rain, Fire, Religion

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• Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

  Criss Jami

  Responsibility, Opposites, Delight

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.

  Hooman Majd

  Christian, Jesus, Iran

  Hooman Majd (2008). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.196, Anchor

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• The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Keys, Loving Others

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• We frequently may press forward hoping and praying—but without absolute assurance—that we are acting in accordance with God’s will. But as we honor our covenants and keep the commandments, as we strive ever more consistently to do good and to become better, we can walk with the confidence that God will guide our steps.

  David A. Bednar

  Honor, Acting, Steps

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• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Errors, Lord

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.300

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• The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Inspiration, Responsible

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• God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Character, Discipline

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• For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Rooted, God's Will

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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• A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our second response must then be to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding and act accordingly. We are all responsible to know what can be known of God's will for nature, and we are then responsible to act on that knowledge.

  James W. Sire

  Christian, Responsibility, Biblical

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• The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You might say: why hasn't this happened to me? Because you have not given yourself over to the will of God, but you live according to yourself. Look at the one who loves his own will. He never has peace in himself and is always displeased with something. But whoever has given himself over to God's will perfectly has pure prayer. His soul loves the Lord, and everything is acceptable and good to him.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

  Coretta Scott King

  Blessing, Supposed To Be, God's Will

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, War

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• 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

  Groups, Assets, Claims

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• It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

  John Nelson Darby

  Children, Believe, Heart

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• Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

  John Nelson Darby

  Mean, Blessing, Confusion

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