Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

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

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

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 cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

There's got to be something greater than us.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

There's a destiny for everybody. The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

My driving force is spirituality.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.