Quotes about Circumstance

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

If Jesus has all authority, that would mean that Satan has none! We are in Christ, therefore we carry His authority into every circumstance, every geographic location and every situation. The only way that Satan has authority is when we give it to him. That is why he works so hard to get us to empower him through lies, sin or covenant agreements.

I realized anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

we forget that there is no victory without a battle, no testimony without a test and no miracle without an impossible circumstance.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.