Let Him therefore send and do what He will. By His grace, if we are His, we will face it, bow to it, accept it, and give thanks for it. God’s Providence is always executed in the ‘wisest manner’ possible. We are often unable to see and understand the reasons and causes for specific events in our lives, in the lives of others, or in the history of the world. But our lack of understanding does not prevent us from believing God.
— Don Fortner (1950–2020), Baptistischer Pastor und Buchautor
Topics: Guidance & God's Will, Faith & Trust
Occasions: For Reflection
Don Fortner
Don Fortner (1950–2020) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Pastor und Autor, der vierzig Jahre lang die Grace Baptist Church in Danville (Kentucky) leitete. Er vertrat eine ausgeprägte calvinistische Gnadenlehre und war innerreformiert umstritten, da Kritiker ihm wegen der Ablehnung des alttestamentlichen Gesetzes als Lebensregel für Gläubige Antinomismus vorwarfen. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er in Andachten und Kommentaren mit einer strikt christuszentrierten Auslegung, die das Heil allein in Gottes Souveränität begründet sieht.
Blaise Pascal
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.
Craig Groeschel
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
John Henry Newman
Chance is the pseudonym God chooses when he wants to remain incognito.
Albert Schweitzer
What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.
Edith Stein
Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.
A.W. Tozer