Quotes About Destiny

Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary says, "In Romans 8:29 and 11:2, the apostle Paul's use of the word foreknew means 'to choose' or 'to set special affection on.' The electing love of God, not foresight of human action, is the basis of His predestination and salvation."[149]

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (Lamentations 3:37-38)

The Christian God is not a physical object, but neither is he like dreams, equations, or Zeus. Rather, he is the creator and ruler of the universe, who decrees our history and decides our destiny, and who deserves and demands our worship.

not the human individuals themselves who chooses those who would come to Christ, it follows that it is the Father who chooses who would receive salvation, and not the human individuals themselves.

The Scripture does not give the idea that God is disinterested, but rather so concerned about us that he took on a human nature in his plans concerning our history and destiny.

Jesus said, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16), but

One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that.

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Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

The gods thought otherwise.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Life will always flow on, it had whispered gently. You might try to stop it, but no one can alter the flow of life. You can only learn how to move with it gracefully, tumbling through the rough times, restoring yourself during the smooth times, and knowing that wherever it takes you, a mightier hand than yours is guiding you, always directing your path. Moses

Why are certain people determined to fuck up their lives while for others it seems so easy to do things the way they are supposed to be done?

Fortune, until now kind to me, begins to wear a frowning face.

We reap what we sow We are the makers of our own fate None else has the blame None has the praise

In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

During any Odyssey follow the theodicy.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

In this best of all possible worlds… everything is for the best.

We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" W.B. Yeats - from 'The Second Coming