Quotes About Foreordained

God predestined His chosen people.

God has planned everything for a specific time

Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall in the chancel.

Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

Sooner or later Cleofes is gonna get it.

The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated, the whole series is predictable and follows a predetermined course to a foreordained conclusion unless special conditions arise.

For people in power to think that mutual self-destruction has been foreordained in holy writ is not, obviously, a comforting thought.

You have a destiny. You aren't allowed to know it.

Mira's never wrong. Whatever she showed you tonight, it's fated to be." "Fated", he said, sounding amused by that. "Well, shit. Then I guess we're doomed.

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

But precisely because history is not foreordained, we mere mortals must invent it as we go along—and in circumstances, as old Marx rightly pointed out, not entirely of our own making. We shall have to ask the perennial questions again, but be open to different answers.