Quotes About Circumstances

Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

Sometimes, there are things is life, and they happen.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don't find under most other circumstances.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.