Quotes about Destiny

If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purpose, and yours may be that life.

The things that happen do not happen by chance—they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you.

God has only one intended destiny for mankind—holiness. His only goal is to produce saints.

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose its way.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

None of us gets our dream in the way that we dreamt it, because none of us is writing our own story. God, in his love, writes a better story than we could ever write for ourselves. He has a better dream than the one we conceive. He knows much better than we do what is best for us. He will take us places that we never intended to go because, in doing so, we become more of what he re-created us in Christ to be.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.