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Quotes About Destiny

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
~ John Oliver Hobbes
You have lost nothing that matters. You have everything you need. Everything before leads up to now and now leads to what shall be.
~ John Ostrander
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
~ John Perkins
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
~ John Perkins
life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
~ John Perkins
Let your life proceed by its own design.
~ John Perry Barlow
I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how badly you need it.
~ John Pielmeier
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
~ John Piper
The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.
~ John Piper
The reason God knows the future is because he plans the future and accomplishes it.
~ John Piper
himself. This is the meaning of his coming. This
~ John Piper
When God is so often spoken of as the last as well as the first, the end as well as the beginning, it is implied that as he is the first, efficient58 cause and fountain from whence all things originate; so, he is the last, final cause for which they are made; the final term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue. This
~ John Piper
I am immortal till Christ's work for me to do is done.
~ John Piper
That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.
~ John Piper
In youth his mind had been closed, for every prejudice of upbringing was a disinfectant against pagan ideas. He now had an even more satisfying answer to the puzzles of human strivings and destiny. Paganism at its philosophical best would appear a gluttering candle to a man who had followed the Light of the World, and more usually it was idolatry, mixed with license.
~ John Pollock
A LATTER DAY NATION "Behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert." (Jeremiah 50:12 (b) – KJV). It was only about 500 years ago that the new world was discovered by the 'civilized world'. And it's only been about 230 years since our founding fathers declared that we were a separate nation.
~ John Price
lo que no se hace consciente, se manifiesta en nuestras vidas como destino».
~ John Purkiss
Miss Destiny said, "there is a God, and He is one hell of a joker. Just—look—" and she indicates her lovely green satin dress and then waves her hand over the entire room. "Trapped! . . . But one day, in the most lavish drag youve evuh seen—heels! and gown! and beads! and spangled earrings!—Im going to storm heaven and protest! Here I am!!!!! I'll yell—and I'll shake my beads at Him. . . . And God will cringe!
~ John Rechy
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
~ John Ruskin
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
~ John Scalzi
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.
~ John Stuart Mill
I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. I didn't want to accept that notion — far from it: my own training in two elite universities taught me that intelligence and talent distributed themselves economically over a bell curve and that human destiny, because of those mathematical, seemingly irrefutable scientific facts, was as rigorously determined as John Calvin contended.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Walking is easy, but it requires faith to find the right path.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Were one to try to identify the single most important influence on Markov's destiny—besides Markov himself—it would probably be a toss-up between Mao Zedong and perestroika.
~ John Vaillant