Foreordination Quotes & Sayings

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people. — G.K. Chesterton

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots. — Victor Hugo

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway. — Lewis Thomas

During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively. — Andrew J. Bernstein

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically — Steven Weinberg

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell

I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home! — Kari Wahlgren

There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world ... The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them. — Jules Marshall

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset. — John Garamendi

We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom. — Seneca.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation. — Walther Bothe

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme ... not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. — Ambrose Bierce

The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic. — Neal A. Maxwell

And I'm okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I'm just not. — Tammara Webber

Giving is not God's way of raising money; it is God's way of raising people into the likeness of His Son. — Howard Dayton

The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords ... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him. — J.I. Packer

They sat like this for a long, long time. Until the air grew cold and the stone tiles icy, and until Dan's body protested with stiffness and increasing aches. Sitting, in silence, just holding, and unable to make sence, when the only thing that made sense was the touch. — Aleksandr Voinov