Circumstances Quotes - Page 10

• Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Trying, Use

  Twitter post from May 08, 2016

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• God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Long, Purpose, Sovereign

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• The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

  Bernard Lewis

  Strong, Mistake, Mean

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• This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Sorrow, Tasks

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.169, Book Tree

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• Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress.
  Thinking, negative thinking causes stress.
  The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances.
  You and I possess the power to change our thoughts.
  It is our greatest power - the power to choose.
  If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax.
  Look at your problems as a stranger might then do something about them - NOW!

  Bob Proctor

  Jobs, Real, Stress

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 08, 2012

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• True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Mean, Trying

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• When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inner Peace, Mind, Causes

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love (Anniv)”, p.181, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.

  Emmet Fox

  Today, Tomorrow, Never Forget

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• Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Creating, Want, Realizing

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• I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

  Rick Warren

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 17, 2012

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• God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Doe, Spite

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.57, Discovery House

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• Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Spite, Consequence

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• Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Giving, Choices

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• It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Heaven

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• Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law Of Attraction, Trying, Events

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.111, Harmony

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• Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

  Napoleon Hill

  Adversity, Successful, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.31, Jaico Publishing House

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• As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.

  Wes Nisker

  Meditation, Sound, May

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• It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

  David Whyte

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away" By David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Doe, Association

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.76, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Miracle, Moments

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• I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Journey, Cost

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from May 29, 2013

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• What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Consciousness, Needed

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.334, Penguin

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• God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.

  Jerry Bridges

  Feel Better, Issues, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.316, NavPress

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• The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Given, Situation, Things To Do

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