Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes

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

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

I don't think God's through with me.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

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.'

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.