Phyllis Smith Quotes

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 am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

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

Let the universe show us what it is.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

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

There's a lot of things we go through and we don't even know why... At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that's kind of how I take that.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.

Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

Leave the rest to the gods.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.