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Quotes about Circumstance

No circumstance is too difficult for Me. Rest in My great Power and Glory, and trust Me.
- Sarah Young
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.
- Hannah Hurnard
But their meeting at the day of judgment will be exceeding diverse, in its manner and circumstance, from any such meetings and interviews as they have one with another in the present state.
- Jonathan Edwards
We make our fortunes and call them fate.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.
- Benjamin Disraeli
By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.
- Roy Bennett
so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.
- Jerry Bridges
I realized anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.
- Jerry Bridges
It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.
- Ernest Hemingway
Character, not circumstance, make a man.
- Andy Andrews