“Free Will : "I made you think so." Predestination: "I knew you had to.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“You are not what you want; you are what you have been made to be” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.” — Max L. Phillips Copy Share Image
You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling. — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
“You are still alive, not because you are special, but because you and the world have unfinished business.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said "No!, I am not going to lose… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Carnal reason doth oft inadvertently rebel against things which to us seem improbable, even if it was thus ordained before we e’er… — Mike IJzerman Copy Share Image
There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work… — Ingrid Weir Copy Share Image
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,… — William Temple Copy Share Image
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
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… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who… — Gabriele Amorth Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, choose the… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Who else could you have been but exactly who you are? I said. Did you, in the womb, construct yourself? All your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“The possibility of waking up from (or even in) the dream offers a glimmer of hope, a sense that there’s more to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Some may object that to speak of election or predestination is to limit the kingdom of God to a few. Does it… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“I gazed up at the sky and let my eyes flicker from one constellation to another, to another, jumping between stepping stones.… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“It is obvious that the aspects of mystery which gather round the word "election" are not confined to it alone. An important… — James Orr Copy Share Image
“This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad,… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive. Predestination is the universal framework of limits… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The cosmic battle being worked out between God and the Devil takes place in the lives of God's creatures, fallen though they… — Fleming Rutledge Copy Share Image
“There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
