Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

God measures out affliction to our need.

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you

...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

Have God make a message out of your mess.

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.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

I feel like [God]'s hazing us.