Predestined Quotes

• 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

  Promise, Earth, Matter

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  I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Change, Philosophy

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• 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

  Sleep, Events, Littles

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.129, Litres

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• It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Years, Grace

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• Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Money, Attractiveness

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.74, Pelican Publishing

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• It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Decision, Way

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• It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

  George Orwell

  Attitude, Swimming, Nineteen

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.210, Arcturus Publishing

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• Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Goal, Doe

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• Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Army, Moments

  To Dr. Arnott, April 1821.

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• We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine - technology - to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Technology, Men

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• 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 Sr.

  Men, Philanthropy, Ends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner (1997). “The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

  Albert Pike

  Effort, Free Will, Made

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Spiritual, Greatness, Dna

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• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Names

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• 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.

  Jacques Ellul

  Jesus, Son, Should Have

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• How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Falling In Love, Thinking, New Orleans

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• Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Feels, Noisy

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• Intimates are predestined.

  Henry Adams

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.202, Booklassic

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• 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

  Memories, Remembrance, Important

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• The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

  James Hillman

  Death, Ideas, Effort

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Sin, Purity

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

  Lisa See

  Fighting, Fate

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• 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

  Mean, Election, No Excuses

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.315

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• Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Goodbye, Heart, Promise

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• 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

  Thinking, Forever, Groups

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