Predestined Quotes - Page 3

• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• I--though heart might find relief
  Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief
  What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part.
  Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Christian, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

  Quintus Tullius Cicero

  Way, Chance, Cases

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• In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Joy, Atheism, Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.182, 谷月社

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• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

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• 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

  Skills, Looks, Might

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• When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.

  Gabriele Amorth

  Jesus, Grace, Want

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