Anthony Marra

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

American Writer

Robert Eggers

Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.

American Director

Paramahansa Yogananda

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

Indian Leader

Robert Green Ingersoll

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

American Lawyer

Charles Spurgeon

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.

British Clergyman

Morgan Freeman

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

American Actor

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Pakistani Poet

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

Shelley Long

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

American Actress

Bela Lugosi

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Austrian Actor

Typically used within religious discussions, particularly around destiny and divine will.

Religious Context

Often sparks debate about free will versus destiny in philosophical or religious conversations.

Philosophical Debate

Has historical significance in theology, especially in debates during the Reformation.

Historic Concepts

In computing, it refers to fixed outcomes in algorithms or programs.

Computing Logic

It implies there's no randomness; every result is intentional and predetermined.

Not Random

Use this term specifically within technical discussions about program behavior.

Predestination