Alexander Smith Quotes

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I believe God will make a way.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

God doesn't make mistakes.

I believe in time and in God. Nothing else bothers me.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

God's hand never slips.

Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

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

Man proposes, but God disposes.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.