#ordained

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. ↗

— Euripides

#god #hates #men #ordained #possess

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. ↗

— John Calvin

#any #attributes #damnation #display #eternal

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. ↗

— King Hussein I

#among #began #believer #cognizant #departure

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? ↗

— Jack Welch

#country #only #ordained #ought #said

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#artisans #been #being #best #creature

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things. ↗

— Gary Numan

#away #dramatic #dreams #i #impossible

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#hands #high #i #joseph #ordained

I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling! ↗

— Tori Spelling

#i #i am #now #officially #ordained

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#choice #death #destiny #fate #fiction

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. ↗

— Rebecca West

#clumsy #gestures #imperfect #international #knowledge