Ray Bradbury Quotes

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

The Mad Monk

No one can predict what God is going to do.

Whatever God has given us, we are just the vessel for it.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.

I keep God first. He me to go out and act and be humble and keep it simple. God gave me this gift to bless the world. That's what I'm here to do.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

Jesus Christ had a sense of destiny.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.