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Quotes About Surprise

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It's hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God's new age, a kingdom of surprise.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
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.
~ Euripides
do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.
~ Vincent de Paul
Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.
~ Mark Sheppard
I couldn't have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!
~ Jim Elliot
I'm reminded today how unpredictable God can be.
~ Francesca Battistelli
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
~ Rumi
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
~ Lynn Redgrave
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
~ Madeline Amy Sweeney
Oh my God! It's a blackout!
~ Shawn Michaels
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
~ Abraham Maslow
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
~ Alan Redpath
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.
~ Tom Hiddleston
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.
~ Max Lucado
Things can change in the blink of an eye!
~ Michael Phelps
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: 'Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.' 'And I said, 'She is? Oh my God!'
~ Kendall Jenner
God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.
~ Margaret Forster
My God. What's happened?
~ Princess Diana
Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
~ William H. Macy
The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.
~ Demetri Martin