Quotes about Circumstance

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Anne couldn't construct a world without pain. But she could trust a big, capable God who would be there, holding her when trouble invaded her world. God's grace was sufficient to hold her in any circumstance. And in this—this reality, this character of God—dwelled the joy of her faith. Joy wasn't a reaction to God's blessings. It was a state of being because of salvation through Jesus Christ.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

When mass failure overtakes a nation, such as the 1929 world business depression, the circumstance is in perfect harmony with nature's plan to break up man's habits and give out fresh opportunities.

If Jesus has all authority, that would mean that Satan has none! We are in Christ, therefore we carry His authority into every circumstance, every geographic location and every situation. The only way that Satan has authority is when we give it to him. That is why he works so hard to get us to empower him through lies, sin or covenant agreements.

we forget that there is no victory without a battle, no testimony without a test and no miracle without an impossible circumstance.

We are in Christ, therefore we carry His authority into every circumstance, every geographic location and every situation. The only way that Satan has authority is when we give it to him. That is why he works so hard to get us to empower him through lies, sin or covenant agreements.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.