Evelyn Underhill Quotes

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Nationality is the role assigned by God to each people in the work of humanity.

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

God's work was what I felt was the greater work.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

God has plans, not problems for our lives.