Quotes about Destiny

...that word which GOD... has written on the brow of every man: hope!

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

The mysterious character of providence, which does not stop at simply steering things "in general", but precisely pursues the individual, that which is distinguished from everything else, and dwells in the whole confusing particularity of the world.

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime. And God never denies his attributes to those who are his light in the world. They shine like stars in the cosmos, and even their anxiety, if God allows it, bears the marks of their divine destiny.

What you are is god's gift to you, What you make of yourself is your gift to god.

Wilder offers this as his explanation of why good people have to suffer in this life. God has a pattern into which all of our lives fit. His pattern requires that some lives be twisted, knotted, or cut short, while others extend to impressive lengths, not because one thread is more deserving than another, but simply because the pattern requires it.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.