The Will Of God Quotes
The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll love us back even half way.
To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.
The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord, That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrows that infest the SoulScatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
Then let me be your mercy, ” he said. “I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
In the beginning, I only wanted to know, love, and serve God and understand the Bible. What harm could that possibly bring?
Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.
Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.
Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.
Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.
Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.
I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.
I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?
He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.
Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.
C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization, " "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.
Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.
Private worship excites us for public worship.
No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel
That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away
The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.
Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.
Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.
We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.
Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.
Despite the huge crowd, He speaks to His disciples as though no one else is there.
If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on
You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.
We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
Christ is not alive now because he rose from the dead two thousand years ago. He rose from the dead two thousand years ago because he is alive right now.
Lord, speak not what I am wanting to hear, but speak what you want to say. For what you say, is truly what I need to hear.