god's plan Quotes

“With Jamie, everything was in the Lord’s plan . . . She always mentioned the Lord’s plan whenever you talked to her, no matter what the subject. The baseball game’s rained out? Must be the Lord’s plan to prevent something worse from happening. A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.”

“God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.”

“My father says a girl who fails to marry is veering from God’s plan - that’s what he’s got against college...”

“God works, as is very well known, in mysterious ways. There is just nothing you can name that He won’t do, now and then.”

“But your choices are also not stronger than my purposes, and I will use every choice you make for the ultimate good and the most loving outcome.”

“Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are. Joy is what happens when we see that God’s plan is perfect and we’re already staring in a perfect show.”

“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”

“People plan, God laughs, or something like that?”

“The most foundational thing we can say about marriage is that it is God’s doing.

“The world cannot know what marriage is without learning it from God.”

“The abundant life that God has in store for you will allow you to have unimagined riches; riches so overflowing that you’ll have plenty—especially to share with others.”

“Your first small step must be followed by another, and another, until you realize that God has indeed made a way for you to know him personally.”

“When God makes a way for you through your trials, it is an active, not passive, process.”

“The main obstacle to finding God’s way through the crises and gaps of life is failing to believe a way exists.”

“As the saying goes, ‘God uses people who fail—‘cause there aren’t any other kind around.‘”

“How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God’s plan for your life is realized.”

“Continue to be the good, sweet girl you are at present, and I have great hopes that Heaven will reward you by giving you Emmanuel for a husband.”