Quotes about Unexpected

So true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; The unexpected God makes possible; And such is the conclusion of this story.

Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.

What was desire anyway, when examined in the clear light of day? Was it the way a woman searched for her clothes in the morning, or the manner in which a man might watch her sit before the mirror and comb her hair? Was it a pale November dawn, when ice formed on windowpanes and crows called from the bare black trees? Or was it the way a person might yield to the night, setting forth on a path so unexpected that daylight would never again be completely clear?

My grandmother taught it to me when I was a little girl," Morris said as she blew down the desolate country road at more than eighty miles per hour. "She used to say, 'Jenny, God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

Who knows where God is going to take you? You haven't seen, heard, or imagined what He has in store. You may not see how it can happen, but you don't have to figure it out. If you believe, God will cause you to defy the odds.

When you honor God, live with an abundant mentality, He'll do things you didn't see coming. He won't just meet your needs, but supernatural provision will come. Uncommon, unusual, things you can't explain.