Gods Will Quotes - Page 8

• God willing and the creek don't rise

  Benjamin Hawkins

  Creeks, Willing

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• God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Faithful, Great Things

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 03, 2015

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• There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Heart, Giving

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• Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.43

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• Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mean, Passion, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.384, The Floating Press

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• What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Land, Issues, Government

  "The War — Its Cause and Cure". teachingamericanhistory.org. May 03, 1861.

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• Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Self, Determine, Fulfilled

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• For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

  John Milton

  Men, Dwelling, Grace

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.62

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• God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Men, Born

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1986). “The Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, New York : Ecco Press

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• Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

  Richard Baxter

  Soul, Misery, Intemperance

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of Richard Baxter: with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by William Orme”, p.169

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• I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.

  Brigham Young

  Ignorance, Men, Blood

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Peace, Passion, Temptation

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Giving, Perfect

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• The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heaven, Done, Kingdoms

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.112, Lulu.com

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• It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Self, Heaven

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• Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Men

  Sara Teasdale, “Erinna”

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• If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Morning, Believe, Years

  Speech to the British and Foreign Bible Society on May 02, 1928. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, pp. 92-93, 1935.

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• To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.

  James Martineau

  Angel, Sacrifice, Sorrow

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• It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started. First, that this happens by the permission, not by the will of God. To this objection there is a twofold reply, the one, that angels and men, good and bad, do nothing but what is appointed by God; the second, that all movements are secretly directed to their end by the hidden inspiration of God.

  John Calvin

  Inspiration, Angel, Men

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

  John Calvin

  Ease, Want, Scripture

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.40, Baker Books

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• One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Practice, Honor, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 145, 1895.

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• Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Blessing, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.

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• In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Men, Secret

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.12, Vintage

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• God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

  Julian of Norwich

  God, Hate, Soul

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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