Jodi Picoult Quotes

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

We don't get to decide who God is.

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

The gods sustain and guide all their works.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.