Origin
This is a 15th-century proverb.
Explanation
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it’s God that decides their success or failure.People can make plans; God determines how things will turn out. People may make plans, but they cannot control the outcome of their plans. This proverb tells that whatever man proposes as his objective to achieve by exercising his will-power, efforts and intellectual potentialities, there is a limit to his abilities and there is some supernatural power–God-to determine the shape of things and its end. Sometimes or most of the times, the end may be against man’s proposal. People very often use this statement during their conversation. Man can place before himself a lofty objective and can strive hard to achieve it by putting forth all his efforts and other possibilities. But there is a limit to man’s abilities. It has been well said. There is a supernatural power that determines the shape of things and that power, God, shapes the end of our objective too. Man can only propose to achieve something and toil himself towards the achievement.
Example
Jill : Are you really going to be able to finish writing your novel by the end of the year?
Bob : Man proposes, God disposes.
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