Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

What men call accident is God's own part.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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

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

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

If God were a socialist he would have made all men alike. But God is not a socialist.

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

War has its evils. In all ages it has been the minister of wholesale death and appalling desolation; but however inscrutable to us, it has been made, by the Allwise Dispenser of events, the instrumentality of accomplishing the great end of human elevation and human happiness .... It is in this view that I subscribe to the doctrine of manifest destiny.

God didn't create the universe so that talented people would be happy.

Everything happens within God's perfect plan.

God do everything for a reason.

Time is not of man; it is of God.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

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

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.