Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

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

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Every creature is a word of God.