Henry Adams Quotes

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

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

It's never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.

We don't get to decide who God is.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Man thinks, God directs.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

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.

When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.