Quotes about Unexpected

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

That is the way God works. Without even a hint of warning, He speaks to ordinary people, on ordinary days.

You cannot plan for love. You cannot choose against it once it has come.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.

When you or I surrender before our owner, the all-powerful Adonai, and lay our insecurities, doubts, and hesitations before Him, we will be amazed time and again as God shows up in the most unlikely places and uses the most unlikely people—you and me.

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.

behind, defying gravity, and embarking on a journey of unexpected variables within predictable patterns toward a deliberate destination. In other words, both require a little bit of crazy and a whole lot of courage!

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?