Quotes about Fate

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

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

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.