What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

What I want is a housekeeper. If I shaved every Sunday and went to church I'd get all the housekeepers I'd want. I'd be respectable then. But what's the use of going to church when it's all settled by predestination? Tell me that, Miss.

nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.

The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! "'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne softly.  

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." -Anne of green gables

Bu dünyada en iyisini ümit etmeli, en kötüsü için haz?rlanmal? ve Tanr? ne verdiyse onu kabul etmelisiniz.

them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.

When we forget god - He remembers us

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

Like the seminarian relying more on his knowledge of Hebrew than on the Spirit to hear God's voice in the text, we're more prone to carefully maneuvering our way through life than to abandoning ourselves to divine providence.

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.