Quotes About Circumstances

Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you compromise to end in settling for far less than what you deserve. You must honor your inner self. Be not a person of circumstances but be a product of self right decision.

Our problems that we created ourselves, are often not as great, as our problems that are created beyond our control.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

I didn't volunteer for the rodeo. I got roped into it.

Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.

Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.

Sometimes the purpose of prayer is to get us out of circumstances, but more often than not, the purpose of prayer is to get us through them. I'm certainly not suggesting we shouldn't pray deliverance prayers, but there are times we need to pray prevailing prayers. We need to ask God to give us the grace to sustain, the strength to stand firm, and the willpower to keep on keeping on.

There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!

If you let your circumstances define the way you see God, you are a prisoner of perspective. Or worse, a prisoner of your past mistakes! But if you let God define the way you see your circumstances, you are a prisoner of hope.

Según los cálculos más conservadores, en las Escrituras hay más de tres mil promesas. En virtud de lo que realizó Jesucristo en la cruz, todas y cada una de ellas te pertenecen. Todas ellas llevan escrito tu nombre. La pregunta ahora es esta: ¿Cuántas de ellas has rodeado con un círculo?

Sometimes the purpose of prayer is to get us out of circumstances, but more often than not, the purpose of prayer is to get us through them.

Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances

God uses every circumstance, even our sufferings and afflictions, to prepare us for future glory. Our faithfulness in affliction and steadfast hope in trials reveals the genuineness of our faith. So we demonstrate our worthiness of His calling by passionately pursuing God regardless of our circumstances. We do not prove ourselves worthy of His calling in order to be saved, but are proved worthy because we are saved.

Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the unique circumstances of the time, the ultimate goal of which is economic egalitarianism and the material liberation of "the masses.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.