“Our flaws either follow us into the world, or wait for us to be born.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian. — Shelley Long 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
You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness. — Eric Butterworth 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
You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else. — Tama J. Kieves 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
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
“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
PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Because I do not accept the hand of God; I do not believe in divine intervention or predestination. I cannot believe that… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to… — Paramahansa Yogananda 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
“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
“If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only… — Roger E. Olson 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
“To produce something new is always a gamble, and God’s creation of man in His image and after His likeness involved a… — Sophrony Sakharov 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
“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
“Faith is not a meritorious cause of election, but it is constantly attested as the sole condition of salvation. Faith merely receives… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“You see him and you think me and I knew if you saw him first you would be afraid because it is… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
“Predisposition is not predestination. We humans are much, much more than our DNA.” — William Landay Copy Share Image
“War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
