Quotes About Circumstances

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes

That it failed to fix IBM's problems or help Akers suggests that collectively the board proved unwilling, complicit, or simply incompetent to carry out its fiduciary and ethical responsibilities until forced to by circumstances.

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.

All your circumstances are in the hand of God," Chambers wrote, "so never think it strange concerning the circumstances you're in.

Criminal,' Cynthia called his inability to kick back and let circumstances take their course. In his book, circumstances without close supervision had a tendency to wind up in the ditch.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

What many people failed to do then (and continue to fail to do today) is admit what happened, understand the context, and make sure those circumstances never happen again. The winter soldiers showed us that redemption is possible when truth is spoken. Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is—as I have learned over time.

Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making.

You have to build yourself a ladder to take yourself out of sadness or grief or fear. Each rung lifting into better light." ....Imagination. She hadn't considered it a rung of a ladder, something she could draw on to change the circumstances she found herself in. She'd build a ladder with courage as a rung. Maybe kindness would lift her higher too.

We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget nor help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighbourhood of light we see our own face.

He said there was a plan, and if I had what I thought I wanted, there could be problems. He said to trust, to assume my current circumstances were for my benefit. He said to be grateful both for what I had and what I didn't have. if I didn't have it, I didn't need it.

Calamities are only calamities if you define them as such; in reality there are only events and all events can be useful.

To make matters worse, they are often further traumatized by their present circumstances (for example, prisoners are raped, street people are attacked, mental health patients may experience helplessness during forms of treatment perceived as violent, and so on).

happened there wasn't my fault, you know." "Promise

I thanked her, and while normally I wouldn't be caught dead wearing sweaters so hideous they'd offend Bill Gates's fashion sense, beggars can't be choosers and all that.

Christ's offer of peace and rest is certainly appealing, and the main way to experience both is to filter painful experiences through the same core beliefs Christ did. We can all find great comfort in the verse, "You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!" (Isaiah 26:3 NLT, emphasis added). If we want His rest and peace, we have to fix our minds on God and not our circumstances.

Jesus comes to you in the midst of the struggle, when the battle is almost unbearable and the circumstances look impossible. With the voice of absolute certainty and strength, He speaks to you

Faith isn't denying the reality of your circumstances; faith is denying these circumstances the right to remain in control of your life.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe—in the form of people and circumstances—gives little or no help to you because you have cut yourself off from the whole.

However sordid the circumstances, at the center of all demonic incidents is a human being in great trouble," Lorraine says.