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appointed QUOTES

1 " This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood. "

― Daniel Quinn , Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

2 " I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in. "

― Isaac Bashevis Singer , The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

3 " Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. "

― Jayce O'Neal

4 " Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment " seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom, one and the same thing: that the world is plumb and sound; that everything comes to its appointed goal; that in spite of all appearances, underlying all things is - peace, salvation, gloria; that nothing and no one is lost; that " God holds in his hand the beginning, middle, and end of all that is." Such nonrational, intuitive certainties of the divine base of all that is can be vouchsafed to our gaze even when it is turned toward the most insignificant-looking things, if only it is a gaze inspired by love. That, in the precise sense, is contemplation...Out of this kind of contemplation of the created world arise in never-ending wealth all true poetry and all real art, for it is the nature of poetry and art to be paean and praise heard above all the wails of lamentation. No one who is not capable of such contemplation can grasp poetry in a poetic fashion, that is to say, in the only meaningful fashion. The indispensability, the vital function of the arts in man's life, consists above all in this: that through them contemplation of the created world is kept alive and active. "

5 " With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen! "

― Germany Kent

6 " I am reminded that the children we birth do not belong to us. They belong to God. We are simply the vessel through which they arrive on this earth. We are appointed to care for and guide them; however, we must recognize when the time comes for them to govern their own lives. "

― Nancy B. Brewer

7 " The vision is always for the appointed time. Though it tarry, it will not fail. It shall surely come to pass in perfect moment. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita

8 " Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. "

― COMPTON GAGE

9 " Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time. "

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10 " In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A Power, a violence, at once hidden and palpable. . . has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. . . And who [in this general carnage] exterminates him who will exterminate all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man. . . The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death. "

― Joseph de Maistre , St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

11 " Till her appointed course be run;
Till on the darkness faint her breath
Flown to the silent void, and Death
Sit crowned upon the ashen sun.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”) "

― George Sterling , The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

12 " Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day. "

13 " The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world. "

― Cormac McCarthy

14 " Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 " Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita

16 " The vision is always for the appointed time. "

17 " There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita

18 " A woman in want must wait for the appointed time. "

19 " The appointed time is the moment of miracles. "

20 " He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals. "

― Anaïs Nin , The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel