What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.
It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.
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