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I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always read enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism. — Peter De Vries

A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course. — Bruce Crown

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. — Neal Stephenson

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian. — Shelley Long

I lost the ability to consider the question of predestination with necessary scepticism. — Alain De Botton

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. — Ayn Rand

Women have a predestination to suffering. — Bela Lugosi

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God. — John Tillotson

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination. — L.M. Montgomery

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. — Muhammad Iqbal

Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heard on this subject. — C.S. Lewis

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation. — Thomas Adams

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true. — Robert A. Heinlein

Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination. — Sue Grafton

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

The ugly and alien logic of predestination. Poetry — G.K. Chesterton

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical. — Winston Churchill

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Predisposition is not predestination. — William Landay

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical. — Winston S. Churchill

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. — Selena Kitt

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse. — Peter Kreeft

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. — Maria Edgeworth

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. — Mary Ann Shaffer

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

But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437 — Joseph Delaney

War between free-will and predestination makes
the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest. — Toba Beta

I believe in fatalism, the positive one. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. — R.C. Sproul

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do. — Why The Lucky Stiff

Just so we're clear the words "free will" are not actually in the Bible. Predestination, on the other hand ... — R.C. Sproul Jr.

I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice. — Johnny Rich

Free Will : "I made you think so."
Predestination: "I knew you had to. — Toba Beta

Free-will followers should learn more about "somebody's bitch".
Predestination followers should learn more about "sexual fantasy. — Toba Beta

Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death. — Paul Doiron

If the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. — Charles Dickens

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. — Muhammad Iqbal