God Is Shaping Quotes

#1. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

Stuart Dybek

#3. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'

Ronald Reagan

#5. A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

Ravi Zacharias

#6. We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

Scott Cunningham

#7. This is where I think the writing started. The "righting," if you will. The righting of circumstances, the shaping of the world the way it should have been, had God not had crossed eyes and buck teeth. In the real world I had no power; in my world I was Hercules unchained.

Robert McCammon

#8. Here we are - Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider - We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

Octavia E. Butler

#9. God can craft ten thousand tomorrows and shape a thousand dreams to fill every one of them. And He carries out this most ingenious 'crafting' and 'shaping' using the very cinders and ashes left by the fires that had originally destroyed our tomorrows and leveled our dreams.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. Very often God's will for you will be "I want you to decide," because decision making is an indispensable part of character formation. God is primarily in the character-forming business, not the circumstance-shaping business.

John Ortberg

#12. Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

Elizabeth George

#13. God never prefabs or mass-produces people. No slapdash shaping. "I make all things new," he declares (Rev. 21:5 NKJV). He didn't hand you your granddad's bag or your aunt's life; he personally and deliberately packed you ...

Max Lucado

#14. God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

Pat Swindall

#15. Shaping someone's understanding of the things of God is a huge responsiblity, and it is not to be taken lightly.

Jen Wilkin

#16. Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

T. S. Eliot