Quotes About Destiny

As someone special who was born from the house of Aaron the High Priest by the providence of God, John

It was all God's plan, and is befitting to the Wise.

I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

None of us gets our dream in the way that we dreamt it, because none of us is writing our own story. God, in his love, writes a better story than we could ever write for ourselves. He has a better dream than the one we conceive. He knows much better than we do what is best for us. He will take us places that we never intended to go because, in doing so, we become more of what he re-created us in Christ to be.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

Si Dios ya te ha otorgado un lugar en la eternidad, entonces también te ha otorgado toda la gracia que necesitas para el camino, de lo contrario nunca llegarías.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5

God's grace not only provides you with what you need, but also transforms you into what he in wisdom created you to be.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must not be just an aspect of your theology. It must not be relegated to the "religious" dimension of your life. Your relationship with God through Jesus Christ is your life. It touches and alters every aspect of your existence; it redefines your identity. It infuses your life with new meaning and purpose, and it completely reshapes your destiny.

God calls him a mighty man not because of Gideon's natural strength and courage, but because of what Gideon will be able to do in the power that God will give him.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

I array the moonlit ceiling with a mosaic of question-marks; How was it I was so lucky to have ever met you?

D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?

Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going?

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

So much of what we are then has been completely outside of our control and is not our fault. •

Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany's most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would prevail over lesser breeds and rule the world.

All roads lead to Mecca Bingo.

Many are called, few are chosen.

God creates the world and chooses a special people.