John Shimkus Quotes

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

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

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.

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

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

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

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

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.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

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

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

I think often that God is guiding me.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.