John Henry Newman Quotes

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

Leave the rest to the gods.

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

It's in God's hands.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

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've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

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

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

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.

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

I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.

I do not see my election of 1976 or my defeat in 1980 in the narrow focus of God's will for this specific event. I believe He has a purpose for individual lives as well as for the sweep of human events. He works out those purposes in ways far beyond our understanding. I was His in 1976. I am His in 1980. Now, let's go eat supper.

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.

I just need to be myself and allow things to happen. If it's God's will, good things will happen.

I've tried to plan for my future in the past and it doesn't always work out the way I want it to, so leave it all up to the man upstairs.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving, knowing that the confinement of the hedge we're in is good and for His glory. Even though what we're enduring may be painful, it's good simply because God Himself has allowed it.

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.