Mother Teresa Quotes

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.