Quotes About Circumstances

Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us, our self-image, even our understanding of God have all been shaped by the destructive values and dehumanizing structures of the world's brokenness.

Life deals the cards, but it is up to us how we play them.

it is an act of bravery not to die in the circumstances in which you have been living. Your very patience was the face of resistance! And what you resisted was the desire of those around you to negate you! Well, you have not been negated. From almost nothing, you have nevertheless derived the strength to go on... and that strength has seen you here, to a place where you have been fulfilled. Where you have known happiness.

De ware schuldige is niet degene die zich gedwongen ziet een dergelijke keuze te maken; de schuld ligt bij degenen die de omstandigheden hebben geschapen waarin zulke keuzes moeten worden gemaakt".

Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.

All of us are partly living our story line the enemy offers us. Most of us, perhaps, live in not a terribly evil place in the moralistic sense of the word. We simply live where busyness, or apathy, or struggle with circumstances that won't change occupies most of our energy. And the enemy is perfectly happy to leave us in such a place practicing our religion.

His natural taciturnity was in his favour; nothing could be more calculated to give people, especially people with property (Soames had no other clients), the impression that he was a safe man. And he was safe. [...] How could he fall, when his soul abhorred circumstances which render a fall possible - a man cannot fall off the floor!

Gentlemen, the prisoner is only twenty-three years old. I shall call before you a woman from whom you will learn the events that led up to this act. You will hear from her own lips the tragic circumstances of her life, the still more tragic infatuation with which she has inspired the prisoner.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

that there was no mud on his shoes and no tracks below him, so therefore he was probably hanging and dead when the rain began. Why was that important? Ultimately, it was not. The logistics of hanging oneself from a tree are not that simple.

The euphoric episode is protected and sustained by the will of those who are involved, in order to justify the circumstances that are making them rich. And it is equally protected by the will to ignore, exorcise, or condemn those who express doubts.

I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances – the curtains were up. GROUCHO MARX

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts

The mindset of a Christian should be based on his faith that God can change the circumstances in His life

Being happy depends on your choice. Your circumstances may affect it but still the choice is yours if you let other things affect your happiness.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.