Top 1200 God Works In Mysterious Ways Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

You need new ways to keep motivating yourself, and creative ways are part of the formula.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

There are many streams of cleansing-beginning with the Blood of Jesus! I want us to study and experience them all, as God works among us to free, heal, and mature His people!

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

My personality can be extreme in all ways, even in positive ways; I've learned that.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.

You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

There's probably a balance between. I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know Christ, if you're a believer in God, you're going to have some good works.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

A crowd is the only way to know if something works. Telling a friend or two doesn't matter. A crowd is what tells you what works or doesn't, so I'd rather go in front of them cold and see.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

The ways that you innovate within a franchise are not inconsistent with the ways that you create new franchises.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

People think they want to know how magic works, but really they don't. How it works is never as amazing as what the trick was in the first place, so it's never going to make you feel good. Somebody just wanting to know how a trick works is never enough to make me want to tell them.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?