Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

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

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

I didn’t come here to seek a power or to get a chairmanship. I wanted to do what I think my Lord wants me to do.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

I think often that God is guiding me.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.