Quotes About Destiny

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

There is always with us that odd little sect of heretics which believes that the stars are busy with the little business of our lives.

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order.

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" 1 Peter 1:16     We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here. Allow the Potter to put you on His wheel and whirl you around as He desires.

At any cost, by any road" means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal.

regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow

If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purpose, and yours may be that life.

The things that happen do not happen by chance—they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you.

God has only one intended destiny for mankind—holiness. His only goal is to produce saints.

Optimism is cowardice. We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end.

That there is, besides a necessity of cause and effect — which I may call the logic of space — another necessity, an organic necessity in life, that of Destiny — the logic of time — is a fact of the deepest inward certainty

Higher man is a tragedy. With his graves he leaves behind the earth a battlefield and a wasteland. He has drawn plant and animal, the sea and mountain into his decline. He has painted the face of the world with blood, deformed and mutilated it. But there was greatness in it. When he is no more, his destiny will have been something great.

Man is an element of all-living nature that rises in rebellion against nature. He will pay for this defiance with his life. Through this act of defiance, man distinguishes himself from all other living things, which as pure nature are blended into the tapestry of the natural universe. Mankind is the hero of this tragedy, world history the final act of the tragedy itself.

In reality, however, it is out of the power either of heads or hands to alter in any way the destiny of machine-technics, for this has developed out of inward spiritual necessities and is now correspondingly maturing towards its fulfilment and end. Today we stand on the summit, at the point when the fifth act is beginning. The last decisions are taking place, the tragedy is closing.

Civilization is the ultimate destiny of the Culture… Civilizations are the most external and artificial states of which a species of developed humanity is capable. They are a conclusion, the thing-become succeeding the thing-becoming, death following life, rigidity following expansion… petrifying world-city following mother-earth and the spiritual childhood.

Hemos nacido en este tiempo y debemos recorrer el camino hasta el final. No hay otro. Es nuestro deber permanecer sin esperanza de salvación en el puesto ya perdido. Permanecer como aquel soldado romano cuyo esqueleto se ha encontrado delante de una puerta en Pompeya que murió porque al estallar la erupción del Vesubio nadie se acordó de licenciarlo. Eso es grandeza. Eso es tener raza. Ese honroso final es lo único que no se le puede quitar al hombre

Denn Dummheit und Glück ja mit vorliebe Hand in Hand gingen.

Wer auf dieser Mühle stirbt, bestimme ich!

his fate stirs us only because it might have been our own fate ; because the oracle has cursed us prior to our birth, as it did him, [...] our dreams convince us of this truth. (Dream Interpretation: Edipus, by. Freud)

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.