Quotes about Destiny

This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.

I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.