Quotes About Destiny

God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness.

Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time's recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal—whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.

When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves.

America, has fallen in the grip of the most portentous cycle in the history of mankind.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events," President Franklin Roosevelt observed in the depths of the Great Depression. "To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.

The next Fourth Turning—America's next rendezvous with destiny—will begin in roughly ten years and end in roughly thirty.

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it.

How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

The good die first.

On the seventh hourOn the seventh dayOn the seventh monthThe seventh doctor sayHe was born for good luckAnd that you'll seeI got seven hundred dollarsDon't you mess with me

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Blood Brothers

Why didn't you give me away? I could have been...I could have been him.

a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.

According to this doctrine, man's destiny—both mortal and immortal—depended, not upon the existence of a soul before birth or after death nor upon the whim of a spiritual force, but upon his own good words and good deeds.

The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world… we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get next.

You were saved because you were the first.You were saved because you were the last.Alone. With others.On the right. On the left.Because it was raining. Because of the shade.Because the day was sunny.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

To exist is one thing, and to fulfill God's purpose is another.