Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.

Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

I have the gift of the gab, can talk and perform, but so can others. I can only attribute it to the fact that somebody up there likes me: it's remote-controlled by God.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

God has never failed. I can sit here and say this. There is not anything in my life that I've prayed according to the word of God and I've not seen God answer.

I believe that whatever I do, after I've asked for guidance and direction from God, that whatever the results, these are the results of His guidance.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.