Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

I leave everything in God's hands and continue to work on playing basketball.

All I can control is how hard I play and put the rest in God's hands.

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

Do your best and let God do the rest.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I will do my best. That's all I can do. I ask for your help and God's.

You can't just say, 'God help me,' and he's there. It takes a little bit more work on the part of the individual, I think.

Whenever I have asked something from God and worked hard for it, I have always got it, be it my Indian citizenship or my weight loss.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.