Quotes About Destiny

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

as my heart travels west the moon in the sky is my boat

Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.

In a toxic system, the toxic minister sets himself or herself up as having a special destiny or mission that can be performed by no one else. This special anointing or calling is often nothing more than the pathological need to be valued or esteemed. It also takes some of the power that should be attributed to God and gives it to the toxic minister. It is a way to usurp God's authority, and it is a way to discredit anyone who disagrees with the direction of the ministry.

Artists are born under Saturn and heroes must die young

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

These are strange days, knowing that I have moved into Destiny, knowing I am in exactly the right place, agonizing as it is." No war here whatsoever.

I was not made for man," Anthony would later declare flatly. "I was made for God. And I was made for myself.

At the hangars, each jumpmaster was given two packs of papers, containing an order of the day from Eisenhower and a message from Colonel Sink, to pass around to the men. "Tonight is the night of nights," said Sink's. "May God be with

The essence of the hero's journey is: How do you live a meaningful life? What is the deepest life you are called to? How can you respond to that call?

It was a good day to die, but nobody did.

This is how stories end, with all these leftover characters, nothing left for them to do.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the door keeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to. ROBERT BLY

There is an embedded assumption in evolutionary theory that the human race came from some prehuman source and through natural selection is heading someplace incredible, some peak of evolution that is our ultimate destination. This belief naturally engenders the perspective that the human achievements of the past were all right for our ancestors, but in the here-and-now are obviously primitive and hopelessly old-fashioned.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

of why we are born, what our life means, why we die as we do. The right to control our own death, tragically, is all that our Religion of Self has left us.

The God who made the world and everything in it . . . gives all men life and breath and everything else . . . and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. (Acts 17:24–27 NIV)

What did you do with your life, Master Bran?" she demanded accusingly. "More to the point, what will you do with your life now that you have it back?

The past has but one path, the present has many and the future none.

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.