Alcuin Quotes

Man proposes, but God disposes.

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

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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

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

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.

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

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

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

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Man plans, but God decides.

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.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Just because we want something so bad does not mean that God wants it for us, too.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.