A Quote by Harlan Coben

Man plans. God laughs. — © Harlan Coben
Man plans. God laughs.

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Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.' God laughs, saying to Himself, 'I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save it!' The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, 'This side is mine and that side is yours.' He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.'
God laughs at men's plans.
When a man plans, a woman laughs.
I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule.
The composer makes plans, music laughs.
God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.
I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?
For man plans, but God arranges.
God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
I never make plans, because whenever I do I find out God has other plans.
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