God Surprises Us Quotes

#1. Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.

Vincent Nichols

#2. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

Maureen Johnson

#3. The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny.

Eugenie Laverne Mitchell

#4. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Oswald Chambers

#5. I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

Dwight Schultz

#6. Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.

Paulo Coelho

#7. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time ... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

Oswald Chambers

#8. I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

Don Piper

#9. I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

M. F. Husain

#10. I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

Brie Larson

#11. you can't control the world; someone will always be there to wrong you. It's your choice to let it go. Only you can decide the woman you want to be." It's

Laura Thalassa

#12. Serve God and be cheerful, look upward, beyond, beyond the darkness of masks, the surprises of dawn, in the deep green grasses of the blood-stained world.

Bob Dylan

#13. The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

Edward Gibbon

#14. Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8,9

John Paul Warren

#15. Dearest love, let me count the ways. Dismemberment, garroted, poisoned, drowned, named. I read that as soon as a species is named it begins its travels up the endangered list. Discovery meaning death.

Lindsay Hunter

#16. Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

N.K. Jemisin

#17. Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.

Samuel Longfellow

#18. Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Gary Hopkins

#19. ... nothing surprises God. You have to remember, He knew what was ahead of you, and He has a plan to help you deal with it.

Brenda Minton

#20. God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

Carrie Underwood

#21. do u wnt 2 shoot it all over my face?

Denise Brienne

#22. I'm going to eat your fucking eyeballs and wear your faces when I'm done with you!

Jake Bible

#23. You don't like surprises?" "I'm fine with them." Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday. Let's get naked on the porch. Oh God.

Nora Roberts

#24. Through the messages of miracles and breakthrough,people are now more like slaves than human beings.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. He actually felt as if God had sent the retriever to intrigue him, to remind him that the world was full of surprises and that despair made no sense when one had no understanding of the purpose - and strange possibilities - of existence.

Dean Koontz

#26. Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.

Walter Brueggemann

#27. Responsive design is not a flawed methodology; it is only when it is misused and treated as an add-on instead of an overarching philosophy

Tom Barker

#28. But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary.
When

James Martin

#29. I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Lynn Abbey

#30. God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

Pope Benedict XVI

#31. God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#32. What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Rick Warren

#33. To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Ugo Betti

#34. Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

Khaled Hosseini

#35. A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought in making you.

Khaled Hosseini

#36. It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

Erwin McManus