Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

The future belongs to God.

The future belongs to God.

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

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Maktub" (It is written.)

I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful - it could be that writing is the worst job that I've ever had. Because it's so much more important to me and there's so much more opportunity for failure and I have so many people depending on me. In some ways it's the most satisfying, the most gratifying, and the most rewarding job I've ever had. But I actually would say it's probably the worst job I've ever had too.

All things happen for a purpose.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.