The Will Of God Quotes

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.