Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure. — Wayne Grudem
Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you — Myles Munroe
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. — Marcus Aurelius
Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted. — Rabbi Akiva
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. — Muhammad Iqbal
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined. — Seneca
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling. — B. B. Warfield
It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God. — Hafez
None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification. — Matthew Henry
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. — Jean Nidetch
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. — Muhammad Iqbal
Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit. — Thomas Boston
What happens to a person is determined by their fate. — Turkish Proverbs
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them. — Seneca
Short Predestination Quotes
You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness. — Eric Butterworth
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived. — Zig Ziglar
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C. S. Lewis
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey. — C. S. Lewis
Women have a predestination to suffering. — Bela Lugosi
If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else. — Bill Johnson
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation. — Thomas Adams
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined — Abbi Glines
You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else. — Tama J. Kieves
Preordained Quotes
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. — John Calvin
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer. — Sergei Yesenin
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. — Theodor Adorno
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not. — Greg Egan
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. — Rebecca West
They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby. — Don King
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained. — Sally Kirkland
I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained. — Rod Serling
We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to make things with words and images and get outside these preordained tropes and ways of thinking and the master narratives - what's handed to us. — Anne Waldman
Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny. — Wayne Dyer
Predetermine Quotes
Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. — Nayef Al-Rodhan
There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history. — Oliver Burkeman
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet. — Linda Darling-Hammond
Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck. — Harold Kerzner
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. — Stephen Hawking
Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success. — Karl Popper
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. — Paul J. Meyer
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? — Alan Moore
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. — Nikola Tesla
Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing. — Kurt Angle
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. — T. D. Jakes
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. — R. C. Sproul
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. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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. — Michelle Yeoh
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. — John Calvin
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. — Charles Spurgeon
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. — Sayings
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. — Morgan Freeman
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 . — Kim Hyun-joong
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. — Paul Mooney
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting. — Sergei Yesenin
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. — Chuck Pierce
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 — John Calvin
What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. — Jeff Olson
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. — Georges Bernanos
What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God. — Joel Osteen
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. — Neal Stephenson
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. — Richard Baxter
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical. — Winston Churchill
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. — Joel Osteen
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined. — Andrei Codrescu
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. — Muhammad Iqbal
The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating. — Jerzy Kosinski
Predisposition is not predestination. — William Landay
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. — Pierre Trudeau
Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess. — Daniel Coyle
For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory. — Oscar Milosz
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. — Amelia Barr
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