Quotes About Destiny

It is the lumps and trials That tell us whether we shall be known And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

I've kept the jasmine and rotted horseflesh separate, knowing you'll do the honours. Destiny will greet us. After that you're on your own.

And time shall force a gift on each.

To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

The Conference of the Birds,

you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously." ---The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

Oh, for once I was beginning to know the real truth! Man was born for slaughter!

We should always remember," Candy concluded solemnly, "that what we are is not what we plan for ourselves, but what God plans for us.

My brother Henry must heir the land, My brother Frank must be at his command; Whilst I, poor Jack, will do that That all the world will wonder at!

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of divine destiny; your existence isn't the product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait,Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,For lo! my own shall come to me.

SERENE, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For, lo! my own shall come to me.

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

for Nazareth was ordained to be Christ's home, so that he might bear the name of Nazarene which was rightly his.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

Let us imagine, for example, a merchant who, entering a wood with a company of faithful men, unwisely wanders away from his companions, and in his wandering comes upon a robber's den, falls among thieves, and is slain. His death was not only foreseen by God's eye, but also determined by his decree. For it is not said that he foresaw how long the life of each man would extend, but that he determined and fixed the bounds that men cannot pass [Job 14:5]. Yet

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it. But

the word predestinate refers not to election but to that decree or purpose of God by which he has ordained that his own bear the cross. In