Quotes about Opportunities

Remember that to these worlds and these beings and these ages we are to be the messengers of the grace and wisdom and glory of God. In that view the future loses its sense of dread, and one looks on to the new opportunities for art, and music, and poetry, and above all perchance of preaching, that are coming to the ransomed ones when the discipline of time is merged into the fitness of eternity, with reverent and holy desire.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.

Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.

Life is short. Don't miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.

Satan is a planner and a user. He seeks opportunities to use people to fulfill his plan.

Instead of rushing foolishly into a marriage because of impatience or one day looking back at our season of singleness with regret, let's commit to using our singleness to its fullest potential. Singleness is a gift. Let's rejoice in it and enjoy its opportunities today. Let's practice trusting God by pursuing His kingdom and His righteousness with all our hearts and by leaving the planning to Him.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves.