I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.
Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future...
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.
What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.
A timeless God created time, that we may know our destiny which He had planned before the beginning of time(1 Timothy 1:9)
To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.
God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.
God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
[...T]he ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, the cloud has led the way, the rock has poured forth water, it has rained manna, everything has contributed to your greatness; you ought to do the rest. God is not willing ...
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
A god should not favor any race, any being or any human. A god should not encourage hate, murder, worship or zealotry. A god who does so has no right to be called a god at all.
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a ca...