Quotes about Outcome

All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." This saying, which is found in a broad variety of lands, does not arise from the brash worldly wisdom of an incorrigible. It instead reveals deep Christian insight.

Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

But what about when the story does not have a happy ending? Is God sovereign then also? This is the crucial question. It's easy to trust God when a process of events turns out as we would desire, though even here our faith often falters during the process until we know the outcome.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Almost every result that your life produces from this moment forward — good or bad — will depend upon how you choose.

The direction you are currently traveling—relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on—will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.

Direction—not intention—determines our destination.

Everything somehow works out. Every decision has an outcome, and every path has a destination.

I always end up where the road I've chosen takes me.