Quotes About Destiny

mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

All who hear are called. All who are called are able.

The story did not end at the tree. For you and your people, that is where the story begins.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

It takes an act of our own will to choose God's plan for possessing our inheritance.

Specifically, the Lord longs for us to succeed: by moving our lives forward; … by causing us to prevail over the enemy of our souls; … by causing us to act wisely and strategically; by promoting us to new levels at the right season; and by helping us to achieve our destined purpose when we cry out to Him along our paths. In essence, as God's children, He longs for us to succeed even as He succeeds!6

I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one.

No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done, so I've got a long road. But I'll know I'll see you again, this side or the other.

your eternal destiny: the ultimate love story, written in blood on a wooden cross erected in Judea some two thousand years ago.

Prophecy is not the study of things to come: prophecy is looking at God's total plan from beginning to end.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

God leads you through failure so that when He works you will know for certain you are not responsible for the success.

Long before Abraham's servant traveled to Mesopotamia, God had appointed Rebekah to be the bride of Isaac. "The angel of the LORD will direct you," Abraham told the servant. "He'll lead you to the one.

With the blood of a scoundrel and a princess in his veins, his defiance will shake the stars.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.