Wilbur Smith Quotes

Leave the rest to the gods.

I never make plans, because whenever I do I find out God has other plans.

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

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

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

It's in God's hands.

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.

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

Let the universe show us what it is.

I've always felt that my career was in wiser hands than mine. Whatever, in its good time, is supposed to happen will happen.

I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.