Predestination Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  William Temple

  Father, Inspiration, Heaven

  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

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• PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Confused, Differences, Confusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Don't Believe

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Intelligent, Self

  "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Keith Hess, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Choices, Design, Desire

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin

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• ... 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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Book, Fate, Men

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• 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.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Piano, Waiting, Miracle

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• Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Book, Mysterious, Glory

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

  Shelley Long

  Believe, Raised, Presbyterians

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• I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

  Ann Patchett

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Numbers, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

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• Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Divine Order, Faithful, Literature

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