Nathaniel Smith Quotes

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

There's no control in life, is there? There's only one who's in control, and He'll take me when He wants me. I don't want to know about it. It's none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won't be painful and that He forgives me my sins.

No one knows when the man up above wants to call your name.

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

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

You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.