Quotes About Why God Allows Things To Happen

#1. Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.

Vincent De Paul

#2. It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn't allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we'll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us
when they do.

Janette Oke

#4. My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn't override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don't do the things they should.

J.W. Lord

#5. We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Radhanath Swami

#6. Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?

Dan Miller

#7. Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Denise Mina

#8. Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

Thucydides

#9. There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.

Irene Hannon

#10. He buries gold who hides the truth.

Pythagoras

#11. You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.'
-Issac Rothe, Crave

J.R. Ward

#12. Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

Billy Graham

#13. I love that hip-hop can still provide jobs for niggas to get money and to put their crew on. I would never say that hip-hop is going down. It's cool, but it needs an adjustment. I think that hip-hop just needs a little fine-tuning.

Redman

#14. God allows difficulties to happen so that your strength, faith and power can multiply.

Jeanette Coron

#15. My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

Alan C. Greenberg

#16. I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me ... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. God is lovingly guiding our lives, and we can be confident of His authority over any situation we may face. He never allows anything to happen without a reason.

Teresa Santoski

#18. One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?

John E. Goldingay

#19. When you lose something and God allows that to happen, it simply means He wants to give you something much better.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!

Norman Whaler

#21. When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

Cree-L Kofford

#22. Nothing can happen to you, unless God allows it to.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. The two that are one, the one that is all!

Michael Scott