Quotes about Destiny
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
- Charles Dickens
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
- Elie Wiesel
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
- Henry Parry Liddon
John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
- Herman Melville
every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.
- Terri Blackstock
Your life tomorrow will be determined by the words you speak today.
- Terri Savelle Foy
I must walk right up to my last moment.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Time is thy barque, and not thy dwelling-place.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Life is your barque not your home!
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Man proposes, but God disposes.
- Thomas a Kempis
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
- Thomas a Kempis