Muhammad Ali Quotes

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

God, in his bounty, has struck down my enemies and enlarged my empire and preserved me to this day. I have reigned by the grace of God. As we must all die sometime, I will not be afflicted when I die. Enemies have come who would ruin our country … They have passed beyond the sea which God gave us as a frontier … With God’s help I will get rid of them.

When you're in God's hands, you're always blessed.

I believe that the Lord is going to take care of me. I know His will is the only way that can judge me or put me in my place.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

When I grew up, my model of God was like a lifeguard: I knew He loved me, but He blew his whistle a lot.

I believe in one principle: Do your work and leave the rest to God.

A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

The only thing I can control is myself. I can't control what anyone thinks about me, I can't control circumstance, I can't control the things that God controls.

It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.

To me, no doctor can determine when it's your time to go. God really knows, and He's the only one who can really give you the day. You just have to keep the faith and live the best you can each day.

Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.