God Wants Quotes

• When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

  

  John Calvin
  • Judge
  • Rulers
  • God Wants

• Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Jesus Christ
  • Achieved
  • Realization

• Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Need
  • God Wants
  • Closed Eyes

• The Lord calls us to love everybody. Every day it's a challenge. Within this sport, I'm called to love everybody. That means that every single German or Canadian that I want to beat, I still have to love. That means competing the way God wants me to compete. That means doing things that might not necessarily be seen as giving me a competitive advantage but instead doing what God would want me to do.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Love
  • Challenge
  • Advantage

• God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Conscience
  • Word Of God
  • God Wants

• The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Hearts
  • Discover
  • Willingness

• We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Character
  • Finished
  • Seed

• We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Women
  • Hands
  • My Heart