Margaret Forster Quotes

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

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

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

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.'

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

God never made His work for man to mend.

You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

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

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

Trust in God - she will provide.

God does not rule in nations, but He is mindful of them. He can and does place people in positions of influence who want what is best for the people and who trust in the Lord.

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.