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Quotes About Destiny

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime. And God never denies his attributes to those who are his light in the world. They shine like stars in the cosmos, and even their anxiety, if God allows it, bears the marks of their divine destiny.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
What you are is god's gift to you, What you make of yourself is your gift to god
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Man plans. God laughs.
~ Harlan Coben
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. —STEPHEN CRANE, "The Colors
~ Harold G. Moore
In Lincoln's mind, at least as Lamon interpreted the story, "the illusion was a sign." Both the president-elect and his wife believed it meant he would not only survive his term in office, but four years later win reelection to a second one, only to die before it ended.
~ Harold Holzer
We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
~ Harold Holzer
What is fate but the whine of the low-born?
~ Harold Lamb
Jerry looked at me and then laughed. Jerry was no dunce. He knew what was on my mind. Jerry was a strange friend. He wasn't an easy one to make friends with; neither was he stuck-up. He was just—particular. I don't know why he liked me, but if I could see far enough ahead, if I could only have known what Jerry and I—but we'll get to it when we get to it. It's bad enough we can look back and remember; it would be a lot worse if we knew what was coming.
~ Harold Robbins
Wilder offers this as his explanation of why good people have to suffer in this life. God has a pattern into which all of our lives fit. His pattern requires that some lives be twisted, knotted, or cut short, while others extend to impressive lengths, not because one thread is more deserving than another, but simply because the pattern requires it.
~ Harold S. Kushner
God only knows the future,' said St.Clare. 'I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
God didn't put me on this street to provide disability awareness training to everyone who happens by. In fact, no god put anyone anywhere for any reason, if you want to know.
~ Harriet McBryde Johnson
He's just a little boy born into this world through no fault of his own. All of us are people born into this world through no fault of our own. My name is Hallelujah. I was born into this world at sunrise on Easter Sunday through no fault of my own.
~ Harriette Gillem Robinet
Our people have only the one chance. Our good deeds must be done on this earth in this life. And since there is no one to share the burden with them or to intercede for them they must do it on their own.
~ Harry Kemelman
How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt
~ Harry S Truman
We can never tell what is in store for us.
~ Harry S Truman
Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.
~ Harry S. Truman
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?
~ Harry S. Truman
You always meet people for a reason, Either you are to change their life, Or they are to change yours....
~ Harshita
Verily, We have created all things with Qadar (Divine Preordainments of all things before their creation)" (Surat al-Qamar, 54:49) "No misfortune befalls on the earth or in yourselves but is inscribed in the Book of Decrees, before We bring it into existence. Verily, that is easy for Allah." (Surat al-Hadid, 57:22)
~ Harun Yahya
3. What is the purpose of our creation?
~ Harun Yahya
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
~ Harvey Cox
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
~ Harvey Cushing
She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved.  She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward.  From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth.  Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God's domain where lovers never ceased to rule.
~ Harvey Havel