But the shooting-brake conformation is so utterly right that it takes on the aspect of preordination. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)
Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination, and night of their forebeings. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But it is still unclear if the appeal to divine incomprehensibility is supposed to help us to accept that God preordains everything and that there is a freedom that conflicts with divine preordination, or if it is supposed to help us to accept that there is a kind of freedom that is consistent with divine preordination but is still freedom. ❋ Cunning, David (2006)
Maury Noble were some predestined anti-Christ, urged by a preordination to go everywhere there was to go along the earth and to see all the billions of humans who bred and wept and slew each other here and there upon it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But I can tell thee there is no such thing as Fortune in the world, nor does anything which takes place there, be it good or bad, come about by chance, but by the special preordination of heaven; and hence the common saying that 'each of us is the maker of his own Fortune.' ❋ Unknown (2002)
The “germ,” then, is not necessarily a miniature organism, it is “every preordination, every performa - tion of parts capable by itself of determining the exist - ence of a Plant or of an Animal” (ibid.). ❋ BENTLEY GLASS (1968)
That the head can infuse the virtue of his own perfection into her, and she can receive it from him according to the order of preordination and subordination fitly corresponding with it according to the difference of both. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)
On the first point: this reasoning proves only that the preordination of predestination is not furthered by the prayers of the devout. ❋ Unknown (1954)
If we are speaking of man in the first of these states, there is one reason why he cannot merit eternal life by his natural powers alone, and that is that his merit depends on a divine preordination. ❋ Unknown (1954)
The divine preordination cannot in any wise be furthered by the prayers of the devout, since their prayers cannot cause anyone to be predestined. ❋ Unknown (1954)
We must distinguish the divine preordination from its effect. ❋ Unknown (1954)
It is used particularly in theology to denote the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. ❋ Robert Wallace (N/A)
Part (Q. 23, AA. 1, 2), predestination, in its proper sense, is a certain Divine preordination from eternity of those things which are to be done in time by the grace of God. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Tolstoy said to me on one occasion: "In our folksong and folk art is evidently yearning without end, without hope, also power invisible, the fateful stamp of destiny, and the fate in preordination, one of the fundamental principles of our race, which explains much that in Russian life seems incomprehensible for the foreigners." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
With Calvin, God's preordination is, if possible, even more fatal to free will. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A merciless preordination had stacked the cards against him again. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
The alternative conditions here described have often been referred to as illustrating the doctrine of God's foreknowledge and preordination of events. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination and night of their forebeings. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)
Spontaneous generation seems almost as great a puzzle as preordination. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
Your conclusion that all speculation about preordination is idle waste of time is the only wise one; but how difficult it is not to speculate! ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
