Anne Carson Quotes

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Man plans, but God decides.

In the annals of human history the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent on the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and counter play of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of the all-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will.

Time is in God's hands.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

What God originates, God orchestrates.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

The dice of God are always loaded.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.