Quotes on Guidance & God's Will

Christian quotes on Guidance & God's Will — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

It is unimaginable what God can make of the fragments of our life, when we surrender them to him completely.

Blaise Pascal

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Craig Groeschel

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

Craig Groeschel

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

I am called to do something or to be something for which no one else is called. I have a place in God's plan on God's earth that no one else has. Whether I am rich or poor, despised or esteemed by others, God knows me and calls me by my name.

John Henry Newman

Chance is the pseudonym God chooses when he wants to remain incognito.

Albert Schweitzer

What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.

Edith Stein

Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.

A.W. Tozer

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”

C.S. Lewis

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

E. Stanley Jones

Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The providence of God is like a Hebrew word – it can only be read backwards.

John Flavel

There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible; Difficult; Done.

Hudson Taylor

They called us mad for going among cannibals, but there is no safer place to be than in the will of God.

John Gibson Paton

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We must become ready to let ourselves be interrupted by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I consider myself a joyful handyman of God and I take hold wherever God lays a need before my feet.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

The will of God is either a burden we carry or a strength that carries us.

Corrie ten Boom

The Lord has no problems. He has plans! That's why there is never panic in heaven. And on earth we are called to a living hope.

Corrie ten Boom

God doesn't hand me a map. He offers me his hand.

Peter Hahne

We are not thrown into life by chance, but called into life by God.

Alfred Delp

Wherever God has planted you, there you shall bloom.

Afrikanisches Sprichwort

Jesus Christ alone knows where the path leads. But we know that it will certainly be a path of immeasurable mercy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Say yes to the surprises that cross your plans, ruin your dreams, give your day - perhaps your life - a completely different direction. They are not chance. Give the heavenly Father the freedom to determine your days.

Hélder Câmara

If God calls you to be a missionary, even being a king would be a step down for you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

May God lead us kindly through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, you began it with me. You pursued me, you would not let me go, again and again you suddenly stepped into my path here or there, you enticed and beguiled me, you made my heart pliable and willing, you spoke to me of your longing and your everlasting love, of your faithfulness and your strength; when I sought strength, you strengthened me; when I sought a hold, you held me; when I sought forgiveness, you forgave my guilt. I had not wanted it, but you overcame my will, my resistance, my heart. God, you seduced me irresistibly, so that I gave myself over to you. Lord, you have persuaded me, and I let myself be persuaded. You seized me like one who suspected nothing – and now I can no longer get free of you. You have become too strong for me, and you have won.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Why should I tremble at the plow of my Lord that makes deep furrows on my soul? For He is no idle husbandman, He purposes a crop.

Samuel Rutherford

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Philip Yancey

God's plan is to use ordinary people with ordinary talents to do extraordinary things through them, so that He alone receives the glory.

Adrian Rogers

Patience! patience! you are always in a hurry, but God is not.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Everyone is called to do something or to be something for which no one else is called.

John Henry Newman

God did not call me to be important. When I get to heaven, God will not say, “Well done, my good and important servant.” No, he didn’t call me to be important. He called me to be faithful.

Craig Groeschel

Too often we want clarity and God wants us to come closer.

Ann Voskamp

Sometimes the fact that there is nothing about you that makes you the right person to do something is exactly what God is looking for.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

God asks you not to have a successful life but to have a fruitful life.

Henri Nouwen

Submission to the divine will is the softest pillow on which we can lay our heads.

Charles E. Cowman

The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you.

Unknown

People quoted here

Blaise Pascal, Craig Groeschel, Frederick Buechner, John Henry Newman, Albert Schweitzer, Edith Stein, A.W. Tozer, C.S. Lewis, Oswald Chambers, E. Stanley Jones, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Flavel

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