Quotes About Destiny

All things ran their course.

had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was

had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the

we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal

the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps

the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To

Ah me!' said he, 'what might have been is not what is!' With which commentary on human life, indicating an experience of it not exclusively his own, he made the best of his way to the end of his journey. …

Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book the Third—

Changeless and hopeless, the tumbrils roll along.

Oh, the river!…I know it's like me…I know that I belong to it. I know that it's the natural company of such as I am! It comes from country places, where there once was no harm in it—and it creeps through the dismal streets, defiled and miserable—and it goes away, like my life, to a great sea, that is always troubled—and I feel that I must go with it!

It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page.

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether

tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.

Death has no right to leave him standing, and to mow me down!

The need itself is not the call.

We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. PROVERBS 16:9 NLT

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Hobnelia, seated in a dreary vale, In pensive mood rehears'd her piteous tale... 'This ladyfly I take from off the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass. Fly, lady-bird; north, south, or east, or west, Fly where the man is found that I love best.'

Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.

Life: What you choose to make it.