45 Quotes About Predestination

I believe in fatalism, the positive one.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

You are not what you want; you are what you have been made to be

We don’t do what we want to; we do what we are allowed to

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.