Oprah Winfrey Quotes

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

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

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

First and foremost, I live for God now. His plans for me are better than whatever I can think.

When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

God works through people. It’s not me.

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.