predestination

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The act of predestinating.

The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.

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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. Charles Spurgeon

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. Leo Tolstoy

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. Neal Stephenson

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. Muhammad Iqbal

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal

Women have a predestination to suffering. Bela Lugosi

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