Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Man thinks, God directs.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Man plans, but God decides.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Our affairs are attached to the destiny decreed by Allah, even our best plans may lead us to destruction.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

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

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

What men call accident is God's own part.

We are the playthings of the gods.

Where it all will end, knows God.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Life is in God's hand.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.