Quotes about Destiny

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it.

As far as pertains to those secret promptings we are discussing, Solomon's statement that the heart of a king is turned about hither and thither at God's pleasure [Prov. 21:1] certainly extends to all the human race, and carries as much weight as if he had said: "Whatever we conceive of in our minds is directed to his own end by God's secret inspiration."

The word predestinate refers not to election but to that decree or purpose of God by which he has ordained that his own bear the cross.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.