Quotes about Destiny

It's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest - one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all - the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n - they do, that they do...

Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.

Everyone has wondered if his or her life will ultimately be a happy one.

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.