{"quotes":[{"text":"...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["eternal-life","flowers","god-s-will","music"],"id":3977,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"God’s will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","god-s-will"],"id":6382,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don’t feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God’s greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems.Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.","author":"Matt Patterson","tags":["christian","christianity","gifts","god","god-s-love","god-s-will","problems"],"id":7637,"author_id":"Matt+Patterson"},{"text":"Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.","author":"Dillon Burroughs","tags":["bible","god-s-will","god-s-word"],"id":18565,"author_id":"Dillon+Burroughs"},{"text":"The faithfulness of the Lord is beyond the understanding of men.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-jesus","faith-inspirational","faith","faith-strength","faithful","faithful-christians","faithfulness","god-s-grace","god-s-love","god-s-plan","god-s-will","spiritual","spiritual-life","spiritual","wisdom","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom"],"id":24619,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.","author":"Orrin Woodward","tags":["god-s-will","idolatry","materialism","ownership"],"id":26291,"author_id":"Orrin+Woodward"},{"text":"Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.","author":"Fakeer Ishavardas","tags":["god-s-will","life-philosophy","motivational","reality-of-life","spirituality","wisdom-inspirational"],"id":33468,"author_id":"Fakeer+Ishavardas"},{"text":"It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ethics","god","god-s-will","manipulation","morals","obedience","selfishness","values"],"id":36388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A higher understanding of human freedom, however, is inseparable from a definition of human nature. To be free is to be able to flourish as the kind of being one is, and so to attain the ontological good toward which one's nature is oriented; freedom is the unhindered realization of a complex nature in its proper end (natural and supernatural), and this is consummate liberty and happiness. The will that chooses poorly, then - through ignorance, maleficence, or corrupt desire - has not thereby become freer, but has further enslaved itself to those forces that prevent it from achieving its full expression. And it is this richer understanding of human freedom that provides us some analogy to the freedom of God. For God is infinite actuality, the source and end of all being, the eternally good, for whom mere arbitrary 'choice' - as among possibilities that somehow exceed his 'present' actuality - would be a deficiency, a limitation placed upon his infinite power to be God. His freedom is the impossibility of any force, pathos, or potentiality interrupting the perfection of his nature or hindering him in the realization of his own illimitable goodness, in himself and in his creatures. To be 'capable' of evil - to be able to do evil or to be affected by an encounter with it - would in fact be an incapacity in God; and to require evil to bring about his good ends would make him less than the God he is. The object of God's will is his own infinite goodness, and it is an object perfectly realized, and so he is FREE.","author":"David Bentley Hart","tags":["christianity","divine-sovereignty","god-s-freedom","god-s-will","human-freedom","human-nature"],"id":39207,"author_id":"David+Bentley+Hart"},{"text":"By becoming the embodiment of His will, we make God real in the world.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["god-s-will","world"],"id":44012,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":145,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}