Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Prosperity is right. Amen. We prosper to prosper others. We prosper to prosper God's kingdom, so come believing.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

God wants to bless us where we are.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

I think God always has the best for us.

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

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.'

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

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

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

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

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

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

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

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.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.