Quotes about Destiny
every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.
— Terri Blackstock
Your life tomorrow will be determined by the words you speak today.
— Terri Savelle Foy
I must walk right up to my last moment.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Time is thy barque, and not thy dwelling-place.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Life is your barque not your home!
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Man proposes, but God disposes.
— Thomas a Kempis
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
— Thomas a Kempis
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit
— Thomas a Kempis
Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
— Ezra Taft Benson