It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.
Destiny plays a very important role in my life.
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
I believe that the universe works how it's supposed to work.
How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
The dice of God are always loaded.
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
You will never get anything in your life which is not written in your destiny.
People's fates are simplified by their names.
I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
