Quotes about Destiny
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
- Ambrose of Milan
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
- Oprah Winfrey
Waiting on God] is not only rendered necessary by our sin and helplessness. It is simply and ruly our restoration to our original destiny and our highhest nobility, to our true place and glory as creatures blessedly dependent on the All-Glorious God.
- Andrew Murray
When we see that humility is something infinitely deeper than contrition, and accept it as our participation in the life of Jesus, we shall begin to learn that it is our true nobility, and that to prove it in being servants of all is the highest fulfillment of our destiny, as men created in the image of God.
- Andrew Murray
The image he bears decides his destiny.
- Andrew Murray
God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days. (So why should you and I? ~ this latter part is added by Napoleon Hill)
- Samuel Johnson
They knew that their story wasn't over when their life was over—that their bodies, somehow, someway, were destined to be a part of that story, and so it mattered where and how those bodies were buried. When the day came to go to the "city" God had "prepared for them," they wanted to walk into that city together, as a family.
- Scott Hahn
But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.
- John Calvin
For Nazareth was ordained to be Christ's home, so that he might bear the name of Nazarene which was rightly his.
- John Calvin
God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end.
- John Calvin
So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If
- John Calvin
We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.
- John Calvin