Predestination Quotes

Predestination Quote of the day

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

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

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Predisposition is not predestination.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

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.

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.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Believing in unknown future, destiny, predestination without working hard to see it through is a mere fantasy

I believe in fatalism, the positive one.

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

But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437

God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said "No!, I am not going to lose what I want done!, So I'm gonna save this people and restore their dreams back to them"!

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional.

Free Will : "I made you think so."Predestination: "I knew you had to.

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.