God's Surprises Quotes

#1. But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary.
When - Author: James Martin

#2. God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. - Author: Carrie Underwood

#3. You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry. - Author: Hsu Yun

#4. If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God? - Author: Anne Provoost

#5. O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory. - Author: Amy Carmichael

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

#7. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I - Author: Og Mandino

#8. 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. - Author: Dean Koontz

#9. Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life. - Author: Walter Brueggemann

#10. Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control. - Author: Karen Traviss

#11. ... 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. - Author: Brenda Minton

#12. 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. - Author: Lynn Abbey

#13. God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them. - Author: Pope Benedict XVI

#14. 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. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them. - Author: Leighton Meester

#16. What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me. - Author: Rick Warren

#17. To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises. - Author: Ugo Betti

#18. A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing. - Author: Rick Holland

#19. 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. - Author: Khaled Hosseini

#20. 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. - Author: Khaled Hosseini

#21. My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time. - Author: Gabriel Macht

#22. 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. - Author: Erwin McManus

#23. Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. - Author: Jimmy Breslin

#24. 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. - Author: Eugenie Laverne Mitchell

#25. 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. - Author: Oswald Chambers

#26. 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. - Author: Dwight Schultz

#27. 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. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#28. 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. - Author: Oswald Chambers

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

#30. Apparently she didn't know about that abomination of the senses in which cute boys can hear you speak their names from literally any distance in space and/or time. - Author: Katie Heaney

#31. 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. - Author: Vincent Nichols

#32. 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. - Author: Bob Dylan

#33. Any relationship built solely on instant attraction is a recipe for failure. - Author: Whitney Gracia Williams

#34. Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? - Author: N.K. Jemisin

#35. 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. - Author: Samuel Longfellow

#36. Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. - Author: Gary Hopkins