Rick Riordan Quotes

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.