英语格言警句_Fate_(F5)

Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overe. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.

- Yrjo Kallinen

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

- Lillian Hellman

In seeking to avoid evil, [humanity] is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts.It is [our] ingenuity, rather than [our] animal nature, that has given [our] fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

- Ernest Becker

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the mon fate of the indolent to see their rights bee a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. (1790)

- John Philpot Curran

... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and ic in its existence.

- George Santayana

[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made -- life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?

Sojourners, August-September, 1991

- Joan B. Campbell