Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward — Destiny

"We believe that all the posterity of Adam, being thus fallen into perdition and ruin by the sin of our first parents, God then did manifest himself such as he is; that is to say, merciful and just: Merciful, since he delivers and preserves from this perdition all whom he, in his eternal and unchangeable council, of mere goodness hath elected in Christ Jesus our Lord, without respect to their works: Just, in leaving others in the fall and perdition wherein they have involved themselves."

"For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Oceans foam, to sail, Whereer the surge may sweep, the tempests breath prevail."

"Lifting your head in your goodness, greatness and majesty, majestically you extend your arm in order to determine destinies."

"We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices."

"My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me."

"[Ivan:] "Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature—that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance—and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth." "No, I wouldnt consent," said Alyosha softly."