Quotes about Chance

But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

At age five I raised my good left hand in Sunday school and used a month's ration of words to point out this problem to Miss Betty Nagy. Getting born within earshot of a preacher, I reasoned, is entirely up to chance. Would Our Lord be such a hit-or-miss kind of Saviour as that? Would he really condemn some children to eternal suffering just for the accident of a heathen birth, and reward others for a privilege they did nothing to earn?

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.

Sometimes we yearn for God to crack open a receptive door to share our faith. We scramble to grab an opportunity that never seems to come. Other times God swings open a door so quickly we're too stunned to walk through it!

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

The first opportunity for this came right away. I had started a new weekly women

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

What is your story? Be ready to share it when the Lord gives you the opportunity.

The effect of this movement, or revolution, as I have called it, is not to "tear down and level up" in order to bring about an artificial equality, but to give every individual a chance "to make good," to determine for himself his place and position in the community by the character and quality of the service he is able to perform.

Even Fortune herself has had an adverse fortune.