Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

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

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

I think God gives you all good things at the same time.

I guess God has His own plans for all of us. And I trust His decision. He always does what's best for me.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

While you're waiting, God's working.

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.