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Quotes about Destiny

You're gifted to do something.
— Karen Kingsbury
All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.
— Akiva ben Joseph
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
— Frederick Buechner
It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.
— Frederick Buechner
The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
— Frederick Douglass
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
— Frederick Douglass
The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If I woke up every day attempting to be my father, I would fail miserably. I think he was anointed. He was chosen by God, and there are few men or women in our world that will be chosen by God to make the kind of impact that he made.
— Martin Luther King III
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
— Leo Buscaglia
So the Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph was a lucky fellow' was one of Tyndale's great phrases from his translation of Genesis.
— Rowan Williams