A Quote by Thomas a Kempis

For man plans, but God arranges.

Thomas a Kempis

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God Man Plans

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Thomas a Kempis
German - Priest
1380 - 1471

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Greg Laurie

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?

John Hurt

Man plans. God laughs.

Harlan Coben

God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.

Elizabeth George

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

Michael Chabon

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

Tom Hiddleston

I never make plans, because whenever I do I find out God has other plans.

Payal Rohatgi

By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.

Maximus the Confessor

We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.

Frederick Lenz

Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as one of Michelangelo's pupils might study his.

Edward Everett Hale

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.