Isak Dinesen Quotes

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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

Man thinks, God directs.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

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

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

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

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The problem with predictions is that so much of the future depends on external factors.