John Henry Newman Quotes

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

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

God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

You never know what God has in his plans for you.

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

I think often that God is guiding me.

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

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

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.