Joseph de Maistre Quotes

God uses whoever he wants.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

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

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

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.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

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.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

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.

What men call accident is God's own part.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.