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  • If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

    Want   Made   Be You  
  • 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.

    Birthday   Believe   Age  
  • As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predestination, and liberty of choice and so on. But to have asked questions of yourself about it, I think is not too important. Let's say - I remain - I remained a believer.

    Source: presbyterianrecord.ca
  • God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

    God   Destiny   Eternity  
    Peter Kreeft (2004). “The God who Loves You: "love Divine, All Loves Excelling"”, p.149, Ignatius Press
  • My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.

    "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.
  • There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

    Reality   People   World  
  • Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

    Men   Simple   Worry  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118
  • My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

  • I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

    Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”
  • God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

    Eye   Profound   Saint  
  • The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

    Piano   Waiting   Miracle  
  • Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

    Mind   Moral   Habit  
    Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.271
  • In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

    Morning   Powerful   Fall  
  • I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

    "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.
  • Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.

    Mother   Baby   Children  
  • Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

    Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift (1757). “The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To which is Prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author”, p.429
  • By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

    Mean   Men   Determined  
    John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.810, Jazzybee Verlag
  • It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

    Life   Work   Fate  
  • What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

  • I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

  • You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

    Jealous   Criticism   May  
    T. D. Jakes (1999). “Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan for Your Life”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

    Choices   Design   Desire  
    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin
  • Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

    Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
  • Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

    "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.
  • Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

  • You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

  • ... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The one is irrevocable, the other is, as termed by men, impending. To the former all must unreservedly submit, inasmuch as it is fixed and settled. God however, is able to alter or repeal it. As the harm that must result from such a change will be greater than if the decree had remained unaltered, all, therefore, should willingly acquiesce in what God hath willed and confidently abide by the same.

    Book   Fate   Men  
  • The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

    God   Self   Intention  
    C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”
  • I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

  • To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

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