Elizabeth George Quotes

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

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

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.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

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.

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

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.

'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.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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

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.

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

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

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.