Mattie Stepanek Quotes

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

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.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time.

I think God always has the best for us.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

Trust in God - she will provide.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

I know that whatever God does is for my betterment.

It's not that I didn't suffer or anything, I feel like it would be a sin if I complained that's why I'm just very grateful and I never questioned God on what happened in 2018.

For me, God is someone who takes care of me and creates good and bad phases in my life so that i can learn from them. This is why even when I am going through a lean phase, I don't get fazed, for I believe that's God's way of teaching me something new.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.