Quotes About Ordained

I turn away from my reflection and step into the shower. I turn the water all the way hot, then all the way cold. I wait for my fists to unclench, for my spine to unwind. I wait to calm down. I don't think it's going to happen for me. It's one of those days. My mood has been ordained. I'm a wretch.

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure." —GIACOMO LEOPARDI, ITALIAN POET AND PHILOSOPHER (1798–1837), PESSIMIST

To keep the soul continually in a state of gentle calm, it is necessary to perform every action as being done in the presence of God, and as if he himself had ordained it." ~St. Francis de Sales

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Ignorance or impotence may be pleaded for so limited a creature as man; but those imperfections have no place in our Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended all those actions of men, which we so rashly pronounce criminal. And we must therefore conclude, either that they are not criminal, or that the Deity, not man, is accountable for them.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

The time is always now to declare your freedom!"..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!

The powers that be are ordained of God.

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

God ordained the Sabbath for us, not just as another requirement from us.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

The central tragedy of the sexual abuse scandal is that those who were ordained to act in the very person of Christ became, in the most dramatic way, obstacles to Christ.

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then?