The Will Of God Quotes

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

Take the good the gods provide thee.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else

Through God, everyone sparkles.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.

Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!