Top 62 Quotes About Predestination
#1. Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
Winston Churchill
#2. We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
R.C. Sproul
#3. The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.
Rebecca Solnit
#4. I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always read enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism.
Peter De Vries
#5. Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
Muhammad Iqbal
#6. Predestination ... and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only ... for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23
Steven J. Lawson
#7. This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Neal Stephenson
#8. Free Will : "I made you think so."
Predestination: "I knew you had to.
Toba Beta
#9. Because I do not accept the hand of God; I do not believe in divine intervention or predestination. I cannot believe that our paths are pre-chosen and that our lives have no will. That there is no such thing as choice.
Carrie Ryan
#10. I lost the ability to consider the question of predestination with necessary scepticism.
Alain De Botton
#11. everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.
Why The Lucky Stiff
#13. PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme ... not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.
Ambrose Bierce
#14. I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, What do you think of Predestination now?
Winston S. Churchill
#17. A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
Thomas Adams
#19. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. Free-will followers should learn more about "somebody's bitch".
Predestination followers should learn more about "sexual fantasy.
Toba Beta
#21. Just so we're clear the words "free will" are not actually in the Bible. Predestination, on the other hand ...
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#22. The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.
Alfred Stieglitz
#23. God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
Peter Kreeft
#24. Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heard on this subject.
C.S. Lewis
#25. Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
Ayn Rand
#27. I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
Shelley Long
#29. I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.
Sue Grafton
#30. There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability ...
Blame thyself
Sanhita Baruah
#31. This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#32. Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.
Paul Doiron
#33. There is no fate ... no predestination ... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.
Ingrid Weir
#34. Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
John Tillotson
#35. Women have a predestination to suffering.
Bela Lugosi
#36. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
John Calvin
#39. I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.
Ethan Hawke
#40. What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#42. Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal
#43. Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria Edgeworth
#44. Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
William Temple
#45. Eddie Fislinger's church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.
Sinclair Lewis
#46. War between free-will and predestination makes
the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.
Toba Beta
#47. I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
Morgan Freeman
#48. To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
B. B. Warfield
#49. If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.
R.C. Sproul
#50. That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.
Martin Luther
#51. You can and you can't - You shall and you shan't - You will and you won't - And you will be damned if you do - And you will be damned if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow
#52. The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.
Clarice Lispector
#53. It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse.
Peter Kreeft
#55. A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course.
Bruce Crown
#56. A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#57. God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin
#58. I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.
Johnny Rich
#59. But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437
Joseph Delaney
#60. You believe in Destiny, don't you?"
"Yes," said Leah quietly.
"Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine
Jacquelyn Frank
#61. If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
Charles Dickens
#62. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
