James McBride Quotes

Leave the rest to the gods.

It's in God's hands.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

You can't control everything.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

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 don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

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

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.