“Do your best and let God do the rest.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 255
“"You do your best, we do the rest." That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 46
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