Quotes About Destiny

The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9

Let me ask you, what are you planning to do with the rest of your days?

When God puts His hand on a plain, ordinary person whom He has destined for leadership, that person is given mountain-matching abilities, whether he be a Roosevelt, a Lincoln, a Nehemiah-or a person like you or me.

Él ya nos conoce mejor de lo que nos conocemos a nosotros mismos, y ya sabe lo que el futuro depara. ¡Él usa las pruebas para revelarnos a nosotros mismos!

As Os Guinness writes, To be sure, calling is not what it is commonly thought to be. It has to be dug out from under the rubble of ignorance and confusion. And, uncomfortably, it often flies in the face of our human inclinations. But nothing short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose.3

But have eternal life." We are destined to die physically and we exist in a kind of living death in the meantime. While nothing will halt the process of decay, and nothing will prevent the end of physical life, God's grace will not allow death to reign supreme. Evil will not have the final word. Life—eternal, incorruptible, abundant life—is offered to all who will receive it through faith.

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.

Hopefully we don't end up as someone else's dinner." For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born into an infinite, hostile universe and destined from birth to be nothing more than fodder for uncaring alien intelligences vaster by far than it can comprehend. "'Scuse me, I'm having a Heather Mills moment here." Mo

the strongest manacles are born in the blood.

We are all puppets in the hands of Fate, and seldom see the strings that move us.

The end is built into the beginning.

Why? She asked in a confused whisper. Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal? Because fate drove me to you.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

There is no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness.

At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with greatness in men.

But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.

A man could not rise beyond the destiny of his chi

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake

I dont want to die Then you shouldnt have been born

Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?