Quotes About Circumstances

affective feelings help animals to better identify events in the world that are either biologically useful or harmful and to generate adaptive responses to many life-challenging circumstances

Unlike animals, who react to stimuli but cannot think of rational explanations for them, humans have the ability to change their behavior by understanding causes, circumstances, and solutions.

Anyway, there's a time and place for everything, and while this may have been the place, it wasn't the time.

teaching that states of consciousness are far more crucial than outer circumstances.

Only the foolish and the uncaring make guarantees. Circumstances change, the world moves on, While wisdom, and sometimes decency, Require constant adjustments.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Yezonkai's train at this time, there was a certain old astrologer named Sugujin. He was a relative of Yezonkai, and also his principal minister of state. This man, by his skill in astrology, which he applied to the peculiar circumstances of the child, foretold for him at once a wonderful career. He would grow up, the astrologer said, to be a great warrior. He would conquer all

Mariah was the kindest person I had ever known. Her concern was not an unexpected part of her; it could be said that her kindness was the result of her comfortable circumstances, but many people in her position were not as kind and considerate as she was. And that was the reason I couldn't bring myself to point out to her that if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances;

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.

We will never know lasting joy in the Lord if we seek to understand him by what goes on in the world or by our circumstances. The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances (p. 40).

Because there's a big difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is external and can change when your circumstances change. If you believe that money will make you happy, for instance, and then you lose all your money, you'll be very unhappy. But joy is deep inside us and isn't dependent on circumstances.

We have to be willing to let go of that's just the way it is, even if just for a moment, to consider the possibility that there isn't a way it is or way it isn't. There is the way we choose to act and what we choose to make of circumstances.

A state of inactivity was never mean for man....There are hours when I feel unequal to the trial...Let no person say what they would or not do since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act...necessity has no law...

The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.

Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances.

Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances. Proverbs 27:12 says, "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

And if we ground ourselves in the reality that we trust God, we can face circumstances that are out of our control without acting out of control. We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

God is good. He is way more interested in developing our characters to match our calling than in manipulating our circumstances to make us happy.

when my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing.

If I'm in a situation where the temptation is overwhelming, I will have to choose to either remove the temptation or remove myself from the situation.

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. (1 THESSALONIANS 5:16 – 18)

God is good at being God. I don't have to figure my present circumstances out. I don't have to fill the silence left behind in another person's absence. I don't have to know all the whys and what-ifs. All I have to do is trust.

Because God is with us in the human struggle, we are no longer destined to fruitlessly rearrange the circumstances of our lives. We no longer depend on another move, another relationship, or another weight-loss program to rescue us from nothingness, from that persistent ache in the pit of our souls. We can flourish because in Jesus Christ the Creator came to us and restored our dignity as God's children.