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.
Quotes about predestination (14 Quotes)
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.
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.
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.
FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.
Outside belief, I wonder how people could be absolutely certain about something which needs forever to prove, like polemic between the concept of 'free will' against 'predestination' amongst the scholars.
I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
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.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever.
Predestination how remote and dim Thy root lies hidden from the intellect Which only glimpses the First Cause Supreme And you, ye mortals, keep your judgment checked, Since we, who see God, have not therefore skill To know yet all the number of the
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
O Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestination round Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin.
Women have a predestination to suffering.