Eberhard Arnold Quotes

Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

God put us on this earth with the purpose of loving.

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

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

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?