Quotes About Circumstances

There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and early affection was repulsed, or betrayed, or became abortive through opposing circumstances. It is these little passages of secret history, which leave a tinge of romance in every bosom, scarce permitting us, even in the most busy or advanced period of life, to listen with total indifference to a tale of true love.

I came to understand that we create our own realities and how. Our thoughts and intentions determine our outcomes. We are not powerless victims of our life circumstances. We are Divine co-creators

Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are

When you are overwhelmed by your circumstances and it seems things are getting tougher, remember that God is still faithful and His faithfulness endures forever.

Bending according to circumstances in not weakness, it's wisdom.

Life doesn't just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.

When life's adversities overwhelm you, look beyond your circumstances with an absolute trust that God is in control.

Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances.

And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men, not men circumstances.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and attitudes do color life...but you have been given the mind to choose what the colors will be.

We have sometimes escaped from grave dangers not by any wisdom or foresight of our own, but by the intervention of unforeseen circumstances. So both the revelation of Scripture and our own individual experiences confirm the wisdom and good providence of God. He watches over His people from the earliest moment of their lives. He overrules and guards them through all their blind wanderings and leads them in a way that they know not.

We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective. Look back over the past, however, and compare what you have been brought through with your frame of mind during each successive period. Consider how wonderfully one thing has been connected with another so that what we now count as our greatest benefits are

When absorbing the sadness of the loss, we must concentrate on bad guys to demonize, or black holes of sympathy in which we get to play the cosmic victim of terrible circumstances. Demonizing and victimizing are the sources of those stories in which we can get so woefully stuck

Not to abide in Jesus' love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That's the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.