Quotes About Circumstance

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become." Perrin

We all do as we must, Moiraine's voice from the past returned to his memory. As the Pattern decrees. For some there is less freedom than for others. It does not matter whether we choose or are chosen. What must be, must be.

I have learned that if the mind is allowed to dwell on a circumstance more and more details will present themselves and the memory becomes much more distinct.

A body makes his own luck, be it good or bad.

I have never found 'luck' a dependable companion

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

It's definitely a situation we have found ourselves in.

They realized neither the war nor the victory was their own creation. Both were products of destiny. The

We have access through prayer to the peace of mind and soul that comes with knowing that the One who loves us most knows our every circumstance.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that included a measure of protection, but they contributed little to defining its national status.

Fate's book, but my italics.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur.

I realized I knew the truth regarding God's sovereignty. What I had to do was to decide if I would trust Him, even when my heart ached. I realized anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never

so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.

I realized anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

Still holding my breath, I worked the dull point inside and slowly, slowly drew back the stopper, plunged it back in, and exhaled. At last, my grateful spirit eased out of the fetid bag of humanity crumpled in that Japanese car, eased out and drifted overhead, until it floated high over the San Fernando Valley, far away from all these people who just didn't understand, far away and high above the awful circumstance of what now passed for my life.