Ole Kristian O. Hallesby

If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God; and have learned to leave this in His hands; and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

Henry Drummond

That is what we are here for,- to do God’s will. That is the object of your life and mine, – to do God’s will. Any of us can tell in a moment whether our lives are right or not. Are we doing God’s will? We do not mean, Are we doing God’s work? – preaching, or teaching, or collecting money, – but God’s will. A man may think he is doing God’s work when he is not even doing God’s will. And a man may be doing God’s work and God’s will quite as much by hewing stones, or sweeping streets, as by preaching or praying. So the question means just this, Are we working out our common every-day life on the great lines of God’s will?

Alphonsus Liguori

The essence of perfection is to embrace the will of God in all things, prosperous or adverse. In prosperity, even sinners find it easy to unite themselves to the divine will; but it takes saints to unite themselves to God’s will when things go wrong and are painful to self-love. Our conduct in such instances is the measure of our love of God.