I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
— Stephen Hawking
Risky Predestination quotations
No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.
We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination.
If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind.
..we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.
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.
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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.
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.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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.
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
Even if I was offered a 100 billion , I still would not join other group .
I think it is predestined that we meet and that is more valuable than 100 billion . It is because the 5 of us are forever as one .
People do many things for many reasons.
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
Insight is the God given ability for you to know your Identity, your Kingdom ID;
your spiritual DNA; your uniqueness in the earth and in the Body of Christ. There is no one like you. You are predestined for Greatness.
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
What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.
Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.
What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny.
Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Women have a predestination to suffering.
I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means;
and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.
If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly.
Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined