Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.
We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.
Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed
We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system! And with my inclination to practical action it seems obvious to me that we have to put a better, more just, more moral system in its place, one which, as it were, has arms and legs and better arms and legs than the present one!
What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.
In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.
I think the more dangerous and dire the political circumstances seem, the more you attach value to anything that shows you why a human being is a human being or human experience or view of the world in that way.
Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I don't want to forget these people, ever. That's very much a part of my still being alive - to remember those who aren't here anymore.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.