Quotes About Circumstance

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance.

manner, a change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

I made the choice, but it was also fate.

would come along at least once

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of what they were to be Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

You don't get to choose what the world would require of you. You got to choose only how you responded.

real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.

Of all possible worlds this was the one in which I had landed.

Fate offers sweet melons to some, sour melons to others,

This might make for an awkward situation. I have a talent for awkward situations.

It is the others you must convince, the ignorant masses, yet paradoxically, they are the ones hardest for you to reach. Theirs are the minds which, thanks to circumstance, have set and hardened against new concepts and ideas from an early age.