Will Quotes

Focus on pouring out your life to Jesus Christ -- and leave the rest to Him.

We can’t watch television for three hours, then read the Bible for three minutes and expect to grow.

The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.

Have you sometimes heard the Lord's voice, in a desire, in a worry, did he invite you to follow him more closely? . . . Have you wanted to be apostles of Jesus? . . . Ask Jesus what he wants of you and be brave! Be brave! Ask him this!

To suffer is to take our difficulty and to carry it with strength, so that it does not drag us down...It is a grace to suffer

God is the One who is closer to you than you are to yourself.

You are My joy, you are My heart’s delight.

Do not be afraid... if God wants you to be totally His, then “YES” is the only answer that will bring you true peace!

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

Don’t fight the hurt. Let the hurt make you real...give away beautiful pieces of yourself and feel the hurt, because the only way to own a life worth having is to give away your own life.

Beholding your beauty is all that I long for. To worship You, Jesus, is my sole desire...for this very heart you have shaped for your pleasure, purposed to lift your name high.

Purity is about having the humility to open ourselves to the will of God. Instead of asking how far we can go toward sin, we begin to ask how far we can go toward love.

To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Righteous beauty is like a sunrise; it cannot be stopped no matter what circumstances surround it. It is not affected by the weather of perceived emotions. It is stable, secure, and dependable. It does not merely sparkle from the outside in; it radiates from the inside out, because it’s inside these perishable containers that the glory of our Lord is held. This glory - His glory within us - is what makes us beautiful.

Young people are always searching for the beauty in love. They want their love to be beautiful...they still desire a beautiful and pure love. This is as true of boys as it is of girls. Ultimately, they know that only God can give them this love. As a result, they are willing to follow Christ, without caring about the sacrifices this may entail.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

The will of God has nothing but sweetness, grace, and treasures for the surrendered soul.

It is not in doing what we desire, but only in doing what God desires of us, that we truly find fulfillment.

Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.