Marcus Aurelius Quotes

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

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.

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.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

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

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

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.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

I didn’t come here to seek a power or to get a chairmanship. I wanted to do what I think my Lord wants me to do.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

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

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?