Quotes about Will of God
Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.
— Andrew Murray
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
— Charles Spurgeon
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
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
— Billy Graham
Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions of mind; that cheerful readiness to do the will of God; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have that perverseness of will, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth.
— Richard Baxter
Thomas Merton who said: "The will of God is not a 'fate' to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act."5
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
— Julian of Norwich
But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.
— John Milton
As a bird easily comes to terms with the necessity of bearing wings when it finds that it is, in fact, the wings that bear up the bird--up, away from the world, into the sky, into freedom--so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling--wings, in fact, which bear her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Well, that's what faith is about, isn't it? If you really believe that somebody loves you then you trust them. The will of God is love. And love suffers. That's how we know what
— Elisabeth Elliot
Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?
— Elisabeth Elliot