Martin Luther Quotes

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started. First, that this happens by the permission, not by the will of God. To this objection there is a twofold reply, the one, that angels and men, good and bad, do nothing but what is appointed by God; the second, that all movements are secretly directed to their end by the hidden inspiration of God.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.

We are all children of a powerful and great God. Of a God who isn't always going to end - things are not always going to end up the way you want them. His will is not always going to be yours.

The future belongs to God.

Because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority, it is God who raises up a king. It is God that sets one down.

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.