Kwame Kilpatrick Quotes

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God's way. . . . God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Leave the rest to the gods.

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.