Huston Smith Quotes

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

God gave me everything I have.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

By the gift of God, WWE fell into my lap.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only successful when we do it - His Way.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

No I'm not lucky, I'm blessed YES

May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.

When everything is going good, that's when I know God has rewarded me for my faith.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.