Gods Will Quotes - Page 19

• The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

  William Ames

  Doe, Eternal, Cease

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Causes

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• And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.

  Donald Miller

  Religious, Strong, Father

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• God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Men, Understanding

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• If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?’ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’

  Charles Simeon

  Rose, Perfect, Should

  Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae Homileticae: Or Discourses (principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested Into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; to which is Annexed, an Improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: In Twenty-one Volumes. Galatians-Ephesians”, p.334

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• We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

  Rod Parsley

  Pleasure, Accepting, Appeals

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• We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

  Tertullian

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Tertullian (1842). “Apologetic and Practical Treatises”, p.52

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• In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Rain, Wind, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.9, TAN Books

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• According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

  Stanley J. Grenz

  Christian, People, Church

  Stanley J. Grenz (1998). “What Christians really believe - and why”

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• I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

  Alveda King

  Dream, America, Forgiving

  "Glenn Beck Appeals to 'Restore' the U.S., Al Sharpton Commemorates Martin Luther King" by Huma Khan, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.

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• I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Children, Believe, Destiny

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• Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

  Mark Batterson

  Jesus, Coffins, Purpose

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• You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

  Mark Batterson

  Bored, Matter, Presence Of God

  Mark Batterson (2013). “Going All In: One Decision Can Change Everything”, p.10, Zondervan

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• Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you. Just in case you have forgotten — and to ensure that you always remember — God is for you. I can’t promise that God will always give you the answer you want. I can’t promise that He’ll answer on your timeline. But I can promise this: He answers every prayer, and He keeps every promise. That is who He is. That is what He does.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Opportunity, Circles

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• If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

  Mark Batterson

  Old Things, Different, Want

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.5, Zondervan

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• Other heights in other lives, God willing.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Height, Willing

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.693, Pearson Education

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• To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

  Francois Fenelon

  Catholic, Kingdoms, Reservations

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• I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Catholic, I Can, Serving

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.

  Jacques de Molay

  Evil

  "Curse of the Templars" by Jamie Seidel, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2014.

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• A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how.

  Watchman Nee

  Believe, Mind, Facts

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.103, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• ... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Views, Soul

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• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Moving, Democracy, Pressure

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• All God makes is good.  Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Used, Accomplish, Seems

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.88, Zondervan

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• Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

  John Bevere

  Wise, Heart, Giving

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