The Will Of God Quotes

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

God, I love John Cassavetes.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

There doesn't need to be a God for me.

If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

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?

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.

If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.