Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

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

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.

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.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.

I guess God has His own plans for all of us. And I trust His decision. He always does what's best for me.

My advice to anyone is, have confidence, sit back, wait for the process to happen. And when it does, whatever the good Lord has in mind, he has in mind.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

What does it matter, all is grace.

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.