Will Of God Quotes
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.
Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.
We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!
When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.
When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load...I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.
Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.
I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.
My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!
And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.
Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.
Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.