Quotes about Unexpected

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

Having been faced with a dried-up brook—a closed door if there ever was one—Elijah needed a window. He got it: The Lord told him to go to Zarephath of Sidon where a widow would look after him. The ravens and the brook, then, were to be succeeded by a Gentile widow about a hundred miles away. Zarephath was outside Israel in Gentile territory. It turns out that God had been at work behind the scenes: "I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.

What makes a bit of ground holy? It is when and where God shows up. He can do this anywhere at any time. This means that the most insignificant place can be declared holy when God moves in. It can come when you least expect it.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.