Gods Will Quotes - Page 30

• Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Sleep, Mind, Study

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grieving, Men

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027".

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• It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Years

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• God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him. This is the whole end of the Law toward men whom God will save.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Law, Able

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?

  Richard G. Scott

  Doe, Many Blessings, Opposition

  "Trust in the Lord". Richard G. Scott's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1995.

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• If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Worship, Worship God, Ifs

  Twitter post from Oct 19, 2014

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• Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Doors, Being Thankful, Despair

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• As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Destiny, Men

  "EVA-3 Close-out". Apollo 17 Flight Journal, www.hq.nasa.gov. 1995.

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• When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

  Maaza Mengiste

  Waiting, Mercy, Happens

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• Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same curious amusement as rain and sun gods do today. Or perhaps our god will simply be shelved along with Zeus and Jupiter. Some day. But until then, we suffer the consequences of a population that believes in the absence of evidence and, more curiously, rejects an objective reality that conflicts with beliefs easily proven false.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Rain, Believe, Past

  "Pareidolia in Politics: The Face of Faith’s Corrupting Influence". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Together, Sin

  Charles H. Spurgeon “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 23: Sermons 1331-1390”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.
  You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment.
  Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Cutting, Past

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• Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician.  It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants.  Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion, he or she becomes more attuned to God.

  Richard Smoley

  Magic, Energy, Attention

  Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney (2012). “Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions”, p.53, Quest Books

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• The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Superstitions, Belief

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

  Thomas Boston

  Hands, Pits, Hell

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• Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Love, Ambition, Men

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• Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Choices, Tasks

  Evelyn Underhill (1940). “Abba: Meditations Based on the Lord's Prayer”

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• Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Umpires, Literature

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• . . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Real, Teaching

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Angel, Men

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become the light of the world must necessarily burn and become less and less. By denying self, we are able to win others.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Winning, Light

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• The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

  William Penn

  Spiritual, Men, Light

  William Penn (1875). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts”, p.34

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• If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT

  Rita Zahara

  Sacrifice, Have Faith, Rewards

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• Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Prayer, Hearing

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• God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

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