Gods Will Quotes - Page 13

• If you reach the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants.

  Tommy Barnett

  People, Giving, Want

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• Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.

  Eusebius

  Country, Children, War

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• My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Knowing, Way, Firsts

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. May 14, 2006.

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• Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humility, Men, Wish

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• It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

  Mark Twain

  Criticism, Bears, Crime

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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

  Herman Melville

  East, Christianity, Should

  Herman Melville, Howard C. Horsford, Lynn Horth (1989). “Journals”, p.81, Northwestern University Press

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• God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Action, Accord

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.72, NavPress

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• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Perfection, Reason

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1

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• 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.

  George Whitefield

  Office, Humanity, Christ

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.137, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear, it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content, because He rules.

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Blessed, Heart, Hands

  Susannah Spurgeon (1896). “A carillon of bells, to ring out the old truths of "Free grace and dying love"”

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• It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

  Frederic Farrar

  Self, Numbers, Soul

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “The Life of Christ”, p.118

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• The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

  Oswald Chambers

  Fire, People, Sorrow

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.61, Discovery House

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• Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Turns, Consecration

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.

  Adam Cappa

  Speak, Silent

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• I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

  Catherine Booth

  Believe, Don't Believe

  Catherine Booth (1990). “For God Alone”, Ambassador Productions Limited

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• We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Scripture, Pillars, Salvation

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• God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

  Og Mandino

  Thinking, Giving, Problem

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• We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Jesus, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.217, Discovery House

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• 'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

  Brigham Young

  Grace, Mormonism, Eternity

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.162

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• It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Real, Have Faith, Tests

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• Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Clothes, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Ruins, States, Whole

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• I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Done, Agents, Certain

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1967). “The white revolution [of Iran]”

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• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  Samuel Butler

  Care, Enjoy, Take Care

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.73, Samuel Butler

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