Quotes about Destiny

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.

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.

The image he bears decides his destiny.

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)

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.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

For Nazareth was ordained to be Christ's home, so that he might bear the name of Nazarene which was rightly his.

God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end.

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.