Elizabeth George Quotes

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

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.

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.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

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 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.

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

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

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.