Quotes about Coincidence
Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.
- Hugh Ross
Before you count coins or count heads, count the number of times Jesus has helped you face the impossible. Before you lash out in fear, look up in faith. Take a moment. Turn to your Father for help.
- Max Lucado
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
- Frederick Buechner
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
- Stephen Jay Gould
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
- Elie Wiesel
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.
- Marcus Aurelius
For in eating of the forbidden fruit our first parents committed an act of theft. Is it not then something more than a coincidence that we find a "thief" (yea, two thieves) connected with the second Tree also?
- AW Pink
You come as opportunely as cheese on macaroni.
- George Eliot
life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
- John Perkins
But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Fate, Chance, God's Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.
- Robert Brault
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
- Robert Brault