Will Of God Quotes

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

God wants to use us as He used His own Son

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.