Intimates are predestined.
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.
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
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.
There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be. "
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.
I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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.
You can't fight your fate. . . It is predestined.
Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.
What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined
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.
He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
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 have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
