"This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute of..."
- Loraine Boettner
"Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each ..."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest."
- Toba Beta
"If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those..."
- Cormac McCarthy
"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the ..."
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines ..."
- Louis Menand
"Believing in unknown future, destiny, predestination without working hard to see it through is a mere fantasy"
- ETC Wanyanwu
"A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course."
- Bruce Crown
"I believe in fatalism, the positive one."
"God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys."
- Criss Jami