"Predestinate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... your ladyship still in that mind;so some gentleman or other shallscape a predestinate ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... this work was Calvin's doctrine of the organization of the Church and of its relation to the State. The base of the Christian republic was with him the Christian man, elected and called of God, preserved by His grace from the power of sin, predestinate to eternal life. Every such Christian man is in himself a priest, and every group of such men is a Church, self-governing, independent of all save God, supreme in its authority over all matters ecclesiastical and spiritual. The constitution ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green
... peculiarity in criminals. It is so constant, in all countries and at all times, that even police, who know not much from philosophy, come to know it empirically, that it is. That is to be empiric. The criminal always work at one crime, that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other. This criminal has not full man brain. He is clever and cunning and resourceful, but he be not of man stature as to brain. He be of child brain in much. Now this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime also. He, too, have child brain, ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker
... foreknowledge." "Whom God did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the ...
— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee |
