Pearl Bailey Quotes

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

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

Leave the rest to the gods.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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.

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

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

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

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

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 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.

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.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

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.

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

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

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

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.