"God's will" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me in earnest so, and raised her voice in saying it, until the whole valley, curving like a great bell echoed "Doone," that it seemed to me my heart was gone for every one and everything. If it were God's will for me to have no more of Lorna, let a sign come out of the rocks, and I would try to believe it. But no sign came, and I turned to the woman, and longed that she had been ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... not satisfied. If evil live Against God's will, evil is king of all, And they do well who worship Lucifer. I am not satisfied. My reason spurns Such prostitution to absurdities. I know that you are happy; but I shrink From your blind faith with loathing and with fear. And ...
— Bitter-Sweet • J. G. Holland
... little ones should be safe at home with their own people, and he, Bambo, homeless and friendless, should be free from future care concerning them—free to creep away somewhere, unnoticed and alone, to lie down and rest—sleep—suffer—or maybe die, if such were God's will for him. ...
— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur
... 'God's will be done! Lady,' he added, 'you wot of that which once passed between us. I was grieved at first that you chose a different ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge
... upon all creation, groaning and travailing in sympathetic pain, to be delivered from the evil and misery and death with which it is laden.[534] He will allow of no ideal short of the highest pattern of angelic[535] goodness, nor concede that we are called upon to pray, 'God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven,' without its full accomplishment being in human power. This height of aspiration gives great stimulative power to Law's writing, but, as is unfortunately apt to be the case, it is a source of weakness as well as of power. With him, as with ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
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