Will Of God Quotes

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.

We all need each other. Sons of god need daughters of god, daughters of god need sons of god.

True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.

Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

If we can't face it, God can't fix it.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .