Quotes about Fate
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
— Frank Herbert
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
— John Piper
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When Zachary saw Annie, he entered the circles of overlapping time. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.
— Marty Rubin
The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The image he bears decides his destiny.
— Andrew Murray
But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.
— John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
— John Adams
The good die young — because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
— John Barrymore
In one word, not to dwell longer on this, give heed, and you will at once perceive that ignorance of Providence is the greatest of all miseries, and the knowledge of it the highest happiness.
— John Calvin
God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it.
— John Calvin