Quotes about Destiny

Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.17

We've all heard the old cliché God moves in mysterious ways. It's probably more accurate to say that God specializes in surprising us. A God-surprise... - is unexpected and unexplainable, - disrupts the status quo, - turns the ordinary into the spectacular, - shows you how much bigger God is than what you have known or seen, - changes your expectations and your destiny, and - leaves no room for doubt-- God is God.

Affirmation from others is fickle and fleeting. If you want to make an impact during your lifetime, you have to trade the praise you could receive from others for the things of value that you can accomplish. You can't be "one of the boys" and follow your destiny at the same time.

I believe that no matter what "plot" each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives to matter. We want our stories to be of significance.

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.