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Quotes About Destiny

It was a fluke. But then, life is.
~ Marisha Pessl
I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate
~ Marisha Pessl
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
~ Marjane Satrapi
But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???
~ Marjane Satrapi
Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.
~ Mark Batterson
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
~ Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here's the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.
~ Mark Batterson
But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.
~ Mark Batterson
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
~ Mark Batterson
The more opposition you face, the bigger & better God's Plan is for you!
~ Mark Chironna
He has never believed in the Fates. You shape your own life, you see the available futures laid out before you and you choose the most advantageous. He can see now that this is a delusion from which you suffer when the path chosen for you is a profitable one. When the path veers into darker, more difficult terrain you finally understand that what you thought was weakness in others is not weakness at all; it is simply the structure of the world.
~ Mark Haddon
We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
~ Mark Helprin
Marriages are made in heaven which is why they cause so much trouble on earth.
~ Mark Helprin
You're always condemned to die. It's just a matter of timing.
~ Mark Helprin
A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.
~ Mark Leyner
And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?
~ Mark Nepo
Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living of our days, and whether we like it or not, whether we choose to participate or not, we will, in time, every one of us, wear the deeper part of who we are as a new skin.
~ Mark Nepo
In kingdom churches, it is not good enough if the pastor and staff get to fulfill their destiny while everyone else watches and applauds. It is time for every believer in every church in the West to reach their full potential and to fulfill their destiny in Christ.
~ Mark Perry
Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of America because you were born in it?
~ Mark Steyn
No ship can out sail death
~ Mark Twaid
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
~ Mark Twain
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
~ Mark Twain
What limpid lakes and cool date palms may our caravans have passed untried? Until, one by one, by the blindest of leaps, we light on the road to these places, we must stumble in darkness and hunger.
~ Annie Dillard
Fiction can deal with all the world's objects and ideas together, with the breadth of human experience in time and space; it can deal with things the limited disciplines of thought either ignore completely or destroy by methodological caution, our most pressing concerns: personality, family, death, love, time, spirit, goodness, evil, destiny, beauty, will.
~ Annie Dillard