Deborah Joy Winans Quotes

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in.

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.

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.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

I wish I would have started MMA earlier, but it was out of my hands. It was in God's hands.

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

Faith is the main thing. That's kind of why I'm like here in Hollywood: to be like a light, a testimony to say God can take someone from Nashville and make me this, but it's his will that made this happen.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

God wants to help you find your way home.

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

No one can stop what God has for you.

But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only successful when we do it - His Way.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.

The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.