Quotes About Predestination

he knew he feared the world to come for in it were already written certainties no man would wish for.

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

Man was predestined to have free will.

Verily, We have created all things with Qadar (Divine Preordainments of all things before their creation)" (Surat al-Qamar, 54:49) "No misfortune befalls on the earth or in yourselves but is inscribed in the Book of Decrees, before We bring it into existence. Verily, that is easy for Allah." (Surat al-Hadid, 57:22)

What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, and like labels, they have the last possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.

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.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you" (Jer. 1:5).

Nothing left to chance.

All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Tu sei un predestinato, Howard; il tuo cammino è tracciato nelle stelle, ed è fatto della stessa sostanza dell'oro di Tutankhamon. Io, invece, rappresento solo una tappa.

I believe that we make soul contracts with ourselves and other souls before incarnating into our human bodies.

God has predestined every single one of us for fruitfulness. (See John 15.) We need to be familiar with a place of divine intimacy in which we are so consumed by the Holy Spirit that we will nurture and protect the seed He places in us. We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.

You were tutored by Him before you came into this life. He helped you understand and accept that you would have trials, tests, and opportunities perfectly chosen just for you. You learned that our Father had a plan of happiness to get you safely through those trials and that you would help bring others safely through theirs. This plan is marked by covenants with God.

The primary principle of the Calvinistic system of thought is the direct and absolute sovereignty of God over all things. Such sovereignty is not one among the many attributes of God, but it comes to expression in all of His attributes.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Each man lives for himself, using his freedom to attain his personal aims, and feels with his whole being that he can now do or abstain from doing this or that action; but as soon as he has done it, that action performed at a certain moment in time becomes irrevocable and belongs to history, in which it has not a free but a predestined significance.

But I believe in destiny and strongly feel that certain things are meant to happen and so they will happen.

No marketing plan is ever going to bring in one soul that was not ordained by the Lord to be saved in the first place.