John Piper Quotes

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

I am a great respector of fate.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

I'm a fatalist.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Everything works out how it should.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.