What the Saints Have to Say about - Conformity to God's Will

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine Will?

- St. Francis de Sales

The accomplishment of the divine will is the sole end for which we are in the world.

- St. John Eudes

To do the will of God man must despise his own; the more he dies to himself, the more he will live to God.

- St. Peter Claver

Entire conformity and resignation to the divine will is truly a road on which we cannot go wrong, and it is the only road that leads us to taste and enjoy that peace which sensual and earthly men know nothing of.

- St. Philip Neri

As in heaven Thy will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

- St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Thou alone knowest best and what is for my good. As I am not my own but altogether Thine, so neither do I desire that my will be done, but Thine, nor will I have any will but Thine.

- St. Francis Borgia.

From The Wisdom of the Saints by Jill Haak Adels