Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

I am humbled the Lord has given me such an amazing life to impact others.

The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs

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?

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

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.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.