Quotes about Destiny

We are one life reaching out into a dark future.

I'll pay for my own mistake." "And your son will pay with you." "I'll shield him as well as I'm able." "Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.

The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.