Oswald Chambers Quotes

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

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

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

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

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

I think that there is a Providence that raises up great leaders at the right time.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

I was running from the calling of God because I didn't want the responsibility of standing upright and living under a microscope. I know now that others' destinies rely on my destiny and purpose. I've accepted the challenge and am actively walking in that purpose.

I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Leave the rest to the gods.

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 have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.