Teach me to take all grace And spring it into blades of act, Grow spears and sheaves of charity, While each new instant, (new eternity) Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.
It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.
The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind. . . that encounters it.
You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living.
There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.