Michael W. Smith Quotes

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I do not see my election of 1976 or my defeat in 1980 in the narrow focus of God's will for this specific event. I believe He has a purpose for individual lives as well as for the sweep of human events. He works out those purposes in ways far beyond our understanding. I was His in 1976. I am His in 1980. Now, let's go eat supper.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

It's in God's hands.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Do your duty and leave the rest to God.

You never know what God has in his plans for you.