Francis de Sales Quotes

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.