SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: KNOWLEDGE

  • When God is leading me, one of the sure signs that I am walking according to His will is the peace. His peace will rule in my heart even if I am in prison like St. Paul, even if I am in the lions’ den like Daniel, even If I am in the furnace of fire like the three young men; nevertheless, I will have peace.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Know the Will of God

  • God will both prepare and direct us for whatever He has in His mind, even if He does not reveal it to us.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Know the Will of God

  • God is not an author of confusion

    Another principle is that God is not an author of confusion. That is to say, God will not send you a certain message through the Scriptures, a different message in your heart, a third message through your father of confession, a forth message through your parents, a fifth message through your friends, and so on. God is not an author of confusion. So, if it is the will of God, God will change the heart of everyone, almost to be in consensus, to declare that this is the will of God, except if some people are clearly against His will; and this will be outside our calculation. But anybody who is willing wholeheartedly to know the will of God, all will be in agreement: whether you read in the Scripture, or the voice in your heart, or the counseling you are receiving from your spiritual father, or you hear from your parents; everything will be in harmony together.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Know the Will of God

  • we need to be persistent in seeking the will of God. When we are persistence and seeking His will and seeking His guidance, He told us, “Ask, and you will receive.” Also, the Lord said to us, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. This means that if you seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, if you live righteously, God will reveal to you in a way or another His will in everything else. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you. And here is the rule, one rule that is very important: if you are faithful and honest in keeping the general will of God— to do good, sanctification, abstain from sexual immorality, giving thanks in everything—if you are faithful in this area, then God will reveal to you His will in other areas. But if you are not faithful but are careless about fulfilling the will of God in this general area, why would God reveal to you His will in other areas. So, the more you are faithful, the more the will of God will be revealed to you regarding the specific questions.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Know the Will of God

  • You should dwell on something exactly to the point that dwelling on it further doesn’t do you any good.

    —Bret Weinstein

  • Both spiritual knowledge and health are good by nature, yet their contraries have been of more benefit to many people.

    —St. Maximos the Confessor, Four-Hundred Texts on Love

  • He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

    ―Friedrich Nietzsche

  • He who opposes unpleasant events opposes the command of God unwittingly. But when someone accepts them with real knowledge, he ‘waits patiently for the Lord’ (Ps. 27:14).

    —St. Mark the Ascetic
    Philokalia, Vol. 1 p.142

  • “Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”

    —Wilma Rudolph

  • Frankl went on to say it wasn’t pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn’t find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.

    —Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy