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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.

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

I don’t believe in fate, as in, which I – as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

If you knew who God made you to be, you’d never want to be anyone else.

O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

I infer that God’s decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.

I was not born to be free—I was born to adore and obey.

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.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

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.

I did this movie, Predestination, and it’s one of my favorite movies I’ve ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that’s not pretentious.

I don’t believe in predestination – except for genetic predilections.

It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.

I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero’s journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

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.

There is no fate… no predestination… no luck. Don’t use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future – no one else.

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.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don’t belong anywhere else.

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

Predisposition is not predestination.

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

O how far remov’d, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God’s will and ours are one.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. … There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.