hidden purpose Quotes

Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

Accident is veiled necessity.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.

I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….