Frances E. Willard Quotes

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.

Patience is God's nature.

God doesn't move until we move first.

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.